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New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionariesMinuscule 31 Text Gospels Date 13th century Script Greek Now at National Library of France Size 18 cm by 14.1 cm Type Byzantine/mixed Category none Note marginalia Minuscule 31 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 375 (Von Soden),[1] formerly it was known as Colbertinus 6063. It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on vellum and paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.[2] It has marginalia.
Contents
Description
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 188 paper leaves (18 cm by 14.1 cm). The texts of Luke 3:38-4:19; 5:39-6:33 were supplied by a later hand. The manuscript is ornamented.[3]
The text is written in one column per page, 25 lines per page, with wide margins (size of column 13.2 by 9.2 cm). The titles are in colour. 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 tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before Gospel of Mark, Gospel of Luke, and Gospel of John but added by a later hand, prayers, and pictures.[4] The text of the codex was many times corrected.[3]
Text
The Greek text of the codex Kurt Aland did not place in any Category.[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.[6]
It has many erasures and corrections.[3]
History
The manuscript was used by John Mill (as Colbertinus 4 after Matthew). It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by J. J. Wettstein. It was examined and described by Scholz and It was examined by Paulin Martin.[7] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.[3]
It is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 94) 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 e Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 136. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n149/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. 195.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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. 42
Further reading
- Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 136. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n149/mode/2up.
Categories:- Greek New Testament minuscules
- 13th-century biblical manuscripts
- Bibliothèque nationale de France collections
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