Minuscule 375

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Minuscule 375
Text	Gospels
Date	11th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Vatican Library
Size	17.1 cm by 14 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	marginalia

Minuscule 375 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 112 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.^[2] It contains marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 173 parchment leaves (17.1 cm by 14 cm). It is written in two columns per page, in 26 lines per page.^[2]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, with their the τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 233 Sections, the last in 16:8), with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).^[3]

It contains the Eusebian Canon tables, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, and pictures.^[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K^x.^[4] Aland placed it in Category V.^[5]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family K^x in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. It belongs also to the cluster 352.^[4]

History

The manuscript once belonged to John Metelli.^[3] The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794–1852).^[6] C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.^[3]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Vat. gr. 1533) in Rome.^[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. 61. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n71/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. 69. ISBN 3110119862. 
3. ^ ^{a b c d} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 184. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n197/mode/2up. 
4. ^ ^{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. 
5. ^ 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. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
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. 

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 184. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n197/mode/2up. 

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