Minuscule 30

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Minuscule 30
Text	Gospels
Date	15th century
Script	Greek
Now at	National Library of France
Size	22.7 cm by 14.9 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	close to minuscules 17, 70 marginalia

Minuscule 30 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 522 (Von Soden).^[1] It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on 313 paper leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 15th century.^[2] Formerly Colbertinus 4444. It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 313 paper leaves (22.7 cm by 14.9 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 14 lines per page.^[2]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin (in Greek and Latin) and their τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is no another division according to the Ammonian Sections with references to the Eusebian Canons.^[3]

Scrivener suggested it was made by the same scribe (George Hermonymus), who copied Minuscule 17 and 70, whose text is much resembles.^[4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[5]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family K^x in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.^[6] It belongs to the textual cluster 17 along with manuscripts 70, 120, 287, 288, and 880.^[7]

History

The manuscript once belonged to J. B. Hantin, a French numismatic. Bishop Moore in 1706 took this manuscript from Hantin's library.^[3] It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by J. J. Wettstein.

It was examined and described by John Mill (Colbertinus 4 for Matthew), Scholz (1794-1852)^[4] and Paulin Martin.^[8] Scholz found that its text much resembles minuscule 17. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1884.^[3]

It is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 100) at Paris.^[2]

See also

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

References

1. ^ 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. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} 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.
3. ^ ^{a b c} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 135. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n147/mode/2up. 
4. ^ ^{a b} 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. 195. 
5. ^ 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. 
6. ^ 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. 
7. ^ 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. 95. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 
8. ^ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 41

Further reading

• Kirsopp Lake & Silva Lake, "Family 13 (The Ferrar Group): The Text According to Mark", Studies & Documents 11, 1941.