Minuscule 307

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Minuscule 307
Text	Acts, Cath.
Date	10th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Bibliothèque nationale de France
Size	32 cm by 23.5 cm
Type	mixed
Category	III
Note	marginalia

Minuscule 307 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A^πρ11 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 10th century.^[2] It has marginalia. Aland's III Category.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles and Catholic epistles on 254 parchment leaves (32 cm by 23.5 cm). The text is written in one column per page.^[2] The biblical text is surrounded by a catena.^[3]

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.^[3]

It contains Prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each book, and subscriptions at the end of each sacred book, with numbers of stichoi.^[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex Aland placed it in Category III.^[4] Aland's Profile in Acts: 35¹ 20^1/2 32² 19^S; in Cath: 62¹ 8^1/2 17² 15^S.

In Acts 8:39 instead of πνεῦμα κυρίου (spirit of the Lord) it has unusual textual variant πνεῦμα ἅγιον ἐπέπεσεν ἐπὶ τὸν εὐνοῦχον, ἄγγελος δέ κυρίου ἥρπασεν τὸν Φίλιππον (the Holy Spirit fell on the eunuch, and an angel of the Lord caught up Philip) supported by Codex Alexandrinus and several minuscule manuscripts: 94, 103, 322, 323, 385, 453, 467, 945, 1739, 1765, 1891, 2298, 36^a, it^p, vg, syr^h.^[5]

In Acts 18:17 it reads παντες οι Ιουδαιοι for παντες; the reading is supported by minuscule 431.^[6]

In Acts 12:18 it reads μεγας for ουκ ολιγος, the reading is supported by 94, 431, 1175, 2818, cop^sa, arm.^[7]

History

The manuscript was examined by Montfaucon, Wettstein, and Cramer.^[3] It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.^[8] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.^[3]

Formerly it was designated by 15^a.^[3] In 1908 Gregory gave number 307 for it.^[1]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Fonds Coislin, Gr. 25) at Paris.^[2]

See also

Bible portal

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

References

1. ^ ^{a b} 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. 65. ISBN 3110119862. 
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 264. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n277/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. 132. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
5. ^ Nestle-Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece, 26th edition, p. 345; Bruce M. Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft: Stuttgart 2001), p. 316.
6. ^ UBS3, p. 489
7. ^ UBS3, p. 463.
8. ^ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs relatifs au Nouveau Testament, conservés dans les bibliothèques de Paris (Paris 1883), p. 108

Further reading

• J. A. Cramer, Catenae, Oxford, vol 3 (1838), pp. IV-XI, 425-451.

External links

• Minuscule 307 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism