Minuscule 318

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Minuscule 318
Text	John 7:9-12:8
Date	14th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Bibliothèque nationale de France
Size	34 cm by 23.8 cm
Category	none

Minuscule 318 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θ^ε409 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century.^[2]

Description

The codex contains the text of the John 7:9-12:8 on 16 parchment leaves (34 cm by 23.8 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, in 58-63 lines per page.^[2] Text is in red ink. The biblical text is surrounded by a catena.^[3]

It contains the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11).^[3]

Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.^[4]

History

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794–1852).^[5] It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.^[6] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.^[3]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 213) 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. ^ 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. 
6. ^ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs relatifs au Nouveau Testament, conservés dans les bibliothèques de Paris (Paris 1883), p. 84.

Further reading

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

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