Minuscule 330

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Minuscule 330
Folios 116v-117r of the codex; John the Evangelist on folio 116v and the first page of the Gospel of John, with the decorated headpiece
Text	New Testament (except Rev.)
Date	12th century
Script	Greek
Now at	National Library of Russia
Size	24 cm by 18.6 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V, III
Note	close to the codex 451

Minuscule 330 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 259 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.^[2] It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the New Testament (except Book of Revelation) on 287 parchment leaves (24 cm by 18.6 cm) with lacunae. The text is written in one column per page, the biblical text in 30 lines per page.^[2] There are three ornamental initials and four ornamental head-pieces (leaves 11, 51, 77, 117). It contains 10 pictures, four of them are given on full page, they are portraits of the Evangelists (folios 10v, 76v, 116v, 116v); portrait of John the Evangelist with the pupil St Prokhor. The head-piece to the Gospel of John contains the incorporated medallion bearing a half-length image of Jesus Christ. The initial letter epsilon at the beginning of John contains a figure of John the Evangelist.^[3]

There is no sign of interrogative, the nomina sacra are written in an abbreviated forms, the errors of itacism are frequent (e.g. παραδειγματησαι).^[4]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).^[5]

It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Prolegomena of Cosmas, the Eusebian Canon tables with an ornamental frames, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, Synaxarion, Menologion, subscriptions at the end of each Gospels, and the Euthalian Apparatus to the Pauline epistles.^[5][6]

The order of books is usual for the Greek manuscripts: Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles.^[5]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type (except Pauline epistles). Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K^x.^[7] Aland placed it in Category V (except Paul). The text of the Pauline epistles Aland placed in Category III.^[8] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual group 16 in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.^[7]

The text of the Gospels textually is close to the manuscripts 16, 119, 217, 491, 578, 693, 1528, and 1588.^[9] The text of the Pauline epistles is very close textually to the codices 451, 2400, 2492.^[10]

Textual variants

Acts 18:26 it reads την του θεου οδον along with P, Ψ, 049, 0142, 104, 451, 1241, 1877, 2127, 2492, Byz, Lect;^[11]

Romans 8:1 it reads Ιησου κατα σαρκα περιπατουσιν αλλα κατα πνευμα (for Ιησου). The reading is supported by א^c, D^c, K, P, 33, 88, 104, 181, 326, (436 omit μη), 456, 614, 630, 1241, 1877, 1962, 1984, 1985, 2492, 2495, Byz, Lect.^[12]

Romans 15:19 it supports πνευματος θεου αγιου along with Minuscule 451; other manuscripts read πνευματος θεου or πνευματος αγιου;^[13]

Romans 16:25-27 is following 14:23, as in Codex Angelicus Codex Athous Lavrensis, 0209, Minuscule 181 326 451 460 614 1241 1877 1881 1984 1985 2492 2495.^[14]

1 Corinthians 2:1 it reads μαρτυριον along with B D G P Ψ 33 81 104 181 326 451 614 629 630 1241 1739 1877 1881 1962 1984 2127 2492 2495 Byz Lect it vg syr^h cop^sa arm eth. Other manuscripts read μυστηριον or σωτηριον.^[15]

1 Corinthians 2:14 it reads πνευματος (omit του θεου) along with 2, 216, 255, 440, 451, 823, 1827, and syr^p.^[16]

1 Corinthians 7:5 it has unique reading τη προσευχη και νηστεια (prayer and fasting) supported only by 451 and John of Damascus. Other manuscripts have τη νηστεια και τη προσευχη (fasting and prayer) or τη προσευχη (prayer).^[17]

2 Corinthians 9:4 it reads τη υποστασει ταυτη της καυχησεως ημων (Byzantine mss without ημων, Alexandrian and Western mss without της καυχησεως ημων)

Colossians 4:8 it reads γνω τα περι ημων along with minuscule 451, 1 Timothy 3:16 it has textual variant θεός ἐφανερώθη (God manifested) (Sinaiticus^e, A², C², D^c, K, L, P, Ψ, 81, 104, 181, 326, 330, 436, 451, 614, 629, 630, 1241, 1739, 1877, 1881, 1962, 1984, 1985, 2492, 2495, Byz, Lect), against ὃς ἐφανερώθη (he was manifested) supported by Sinaiticus, Codex Alexandrinus, Ephraemi, Boernerianus, 33, 365, 442, 2127, edit] History

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 11th century. Eduard de Muralt and C. R. Gregory dated the manuscript to the 12th century.^[5] Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 12th century.^[20]

Until the 40s of the 16th century the manuscript was kept at the Great Lavra of St Athanasius on Mount Athos, then it belonged to Pierre Seguier (1588-1672), Chancellor of France. It was a part of the Fonds Coislin (Gr. 196).^[6] At the end of the 18th century Peter P. Dubrovsky (1754-1816), serving as the secretary to the Russian Embassy at Paris, acquired the manuscript. It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852),^[21]

The manuscript was described by Bernard de Montfaucon.^[6] It was examined and described by Paulin Martin,^[22] collated by Eduard de Muralt.^[23] A new collation was made by M. Davies.

The restoration work of the manuscript was made in 1968, the portraits of the four Evangelists were repainted.^[24]

Since 1805 the manuscript is currently housed at the National Library of Russia (Gr. 101) at Saint Petersburg.^[2][20]

See also

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• 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. 60. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n71/mode/2up. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} Aland, Kurt; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 66. ISBN 3110119862. 
3. ^ Minuscule 330 at the National Library of Russia
4. ^ Eduard de Muralt, Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque Impériale publique (Petersburg 1864), pp. 56-57
5. ^ ^{a b c d} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. pp. 179–180. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n191/mode/2up. 
6. ^ ^{a b c} Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1861). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 171. 
7. ^ ^{a b} 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. 
8. ^ 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. 
9. ^ 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. 107. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
10. ^ Colwell E. C., The Four Gospels of Karahissar I, History and Text, Chicago, 1936.
11. ^ UBS3, p. 491.
12. ^ UBS3, p. 548.
13. ^ UBS3, p. 572.
14. ^ UBS3, pp. 576-577.
15. ^ UBS3, p. 581.
16. ^ UBS3, p. 583.
17. ^ UBS3, p. 591.
18. ^ Bruce M. Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft: Stuttgart 2001), pp. 573-573.
19. ^ 1 Timothy 3:16 in Codex Alexandrinus at the Bible Research
20. ^ ^{a b} "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php. Retrieved 9 April 2011. 
21. ^ 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. 230. 
22. ^ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs relatifs au N. T., conservés dans les bibliothèques de Paris (Paris 1883), p. 86.
23. ^ Eduard de Muralt, Novum Testamentum Graecum 1848.
24. ^ Minuscule 330 at the National Library of Russia

Further reading

• Bernard de Montfaucon, Bibliotheca Coisliniana (Paris, 1715), p. 249.
• Eduard de Muralt, Novum Testamentum Graecum (1848).
• Eduard de Muralt, Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque Impériale publique (Petersburg 1864), pp. 56-57.
• Ernst Cadman Colwell, The Four Gospels of Karahissar I, History and Text, Chicago, 1936, pp. 170-222.
• Kurt Treu, Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan, T & U 90 (Berlin, 1966), pp. 63-67.
• M. Davies, The Text of the Pauline Epistles in MS. 2344 (Studies & Documents 38, 1968)

External links

• Minuscule 330 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism
• Minuscule 330 at the National Library of Russia