Minuscule 316

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Minuscule 316
Text	Luke 18:18-24:53; John 1:16-12:25
Date	14th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Bibliothèque nationale de France
Size	34 cm by 22 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	marginalia

Minuscule 316 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), O^ε321 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on cotton paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century.^[2] The manuscript has no complex contents. It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Luke (18:18-24:53) and John 1:16-12:25 on 129 paper leaves (34 cm by 22 cm). The text is written in one column per page, in 33 lines per page.^[2]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages. The biblical text is surrounded by a catena.^[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[4] It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.^[5]

History

The manuscript came from Constantinople.^[3] It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794–1852).^[6] It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.^[7] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.^[3]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 211) 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. 59. 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} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 179. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n191/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. p. 59. 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 relatifs au Nouveauy Testament, conservés dans les bibliothèques de Paris (Paris 1883), p. 84.

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 179. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n191/mode/2up. 

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