Minuscule 337

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Minuscule 337
Text	New Testament (except Gospels)
Date	12th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Bibliothèque nationale de France
Size	25.3 cm by 16.3 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	marginalia

Minuscule 337 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 205 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.^[2] Formerly it was labelled by 51^a, 133^p, and 52^r.^[3] It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the New Testament (except Gospels) on 375 parchment leaves (25.3 cm by 16.3 cm) with lacunae (Acts 5:5-26; 7:56-8:8; 9:37-10:4; Rev. 10:4-11:1; 22:17-21). The text is written in one column per page, in 23 lines per page.^[2]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin.^[4]

It contains Prolegomena to the Catholic and Pauline epistles, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), and subscriptions in the Pauline epistles (at the end of each epistle).^[4]

At the end of the Epistle to the Romans it has subscription: εγραφη η προς Ρωμαιους επιστολη δια Τερτιου επεμφτη δε δια Φοιβης απο Κορινθιων.^[5]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[6]

History

The manuscript once belonged to Mazarin.^[3] It was and described examined by Scholz and Paulin Martin.^[7] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.^[4]

Formerly it was labelled by 51^a, 133^p, and 52^r.^[4] Gregory in 1908 gave the number 337 to it.^[1]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 56) in Paris.^[2]

See also

• 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. 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. 268. ISBN 3110119862. 
3. ^ ^{a b} 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. 288. 
4. ^ ^{a b c d} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 268. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n281/mode/2up. 
5. ^ Bruce M. Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (2001), p. 477.
6. ^ 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. 
7. ^ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs relatifs au Nouveau Testament, conservés dans les bibliothèques de Paris (Paris 1883), p. 111.

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 268. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n281/mode/2up. 

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