Minuscule 377

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Minuscule 377
Text	Gospels
Date	16th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Vatican Library
Size	30.6 cm by 20.9 cm
Category	none

Minuscule 377 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A⁵⁰¹ (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 16th century.^[2]

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 339 paper leaves (30.6 cm by 20.9 cm). The text is written in one column per page, in 30 lines per page.^[2]

The text of Matthew is surrounded by a catena, the other Gospels with questions and answers (ερωταποκρ).^[3]

Text

Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.^[4] According to the Claremont Profile Method it has mixed text in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 it is a mixture of the Byzantine families.^[5]

History

Scrivener and Gregory dated the manuscript to the 15th century. Currently the INTF dates it to the 16th century.^[2]

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. 1618) 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 d} 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} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 184. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n197/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. 139. 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 (1861). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament (1 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 168. 

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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