Minuscule 287

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Minuscule 287
Text	Gospels
Date	1478
Script	Greek
Now at	Bibliothèque nationale de France
Size	23.9 cm by 14.1 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	marginalia

Minuscule 287 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 523 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1478.^[2] It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 322 paper leaves (23.9 cm by 14.1 cm). The text is written in one column per page, in 18-19 lines per page.^[2]

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 234 sections, the last in 16:9), but without references to the Eusebian Canons.^[3]

It contains pictures.^[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[4] According to Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family K^x in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It belongs to the textual cluster 17 along with manuscripts 17, 30, 70, 120, 288, and 880.^[5]

History

The manuscript was written by George Hermonymus for David Chambellan.^[3] The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).^[6] It was examined and described by Dean Burgon (Guardian, Jan. 22, 1873.) and Paulin Martin.^[7] C. R. Gregory saw it in 1884.^[3]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 96) at Paris.^[2]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 58. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n69/mode/2up. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} Aland, K.; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 64. ISBN 3110119862. 
3. ^ ^{a b c d} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 176. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n189/mode/2up. 
4. ^ 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. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
5. ^ 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. pp. 58, 95. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 
6. ^ 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. 225. 
7. ^ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 70

Further reading

• Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 70.

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