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New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionariesMinuscule 26 Text Gospels Date 11th century Script Greek Now at National Library of France Size 24.1 cm by 18.5 cm Type mixed Category none Hand neatly written Minuscule 26 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 165 (von Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on vellum, on 179 leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.[2] It has marginalia.
Contents
Description
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 179 parchment leaves (24.1 cm by 18.5 cm) with lacunae. The text is written in one column per page, 27-28 lines per page.[3] The text is written neatly and correctly.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters) whose numbers are given at the margin, and the τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 240, the last in 16:19). There is no references to the Eusebian Canons.[3]
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Prolegomena, Eusebian Canon tables, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), Synaxarion, and Menologion.[4]
Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kx in Luke 10 and Luke 20. In Luke 1 it has mixture of the Byzantine families.[6]
History
The manuscript was written by Paulus, a scribe.[3]
It was examined and described by Wettstein, Scholz (1794-1852), Paulin Martin,[7] and Henri Omont. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.[3]
It is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 78) at Paris.[2]
See also
- List of New Testament minuscules
- Biblical manuscripts
- Textual criticism
References
- ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 49. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n59/mode/2up.
- ^ a b K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 48.
- ^ a b c d Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 134. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n147/mode/2up.
- ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 194.
- ^ Aland, Kurt; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. pp. 129, 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ Wisse, Frederik (1982). The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 53. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
- ^ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 39
Further reading
- Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 39
Categories:- Greek New Testament minuscules
- 11th-century biblical manuscripts
- Bibliothèque nationale de France collections
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