Minuscule 378

New Testament manuscripts
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Minuscule 378
Text	Acts, Cath., Paul
Date	13th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Bodleian Library
Size	23 cm by 15 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	III, V
Note	marginalia

Minuscule 378 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 258 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.^[2] Formerly it was labelled by 56^a, 227^p.^[3] It has some marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 221 parchment leaves (23 cm by 15 cm) with one lacuna (Acts 10:15-36). The text is written in one column per page, in 26-31 lines per page.^[2]

It contains Prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each sacred book, numbers of the κεφαλαια (chapters) at the margin, lectionary markings at the margin, synaxaria, subscriptions at the end of each book, and numbers of stichoi.^[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type (except Catholic epistles). Aland placed it in Category V (except Catholic epistles). The text of the Catholic epistles has higher value, Aland placed it in III Category.^[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).^[5] C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.^[3]

Formerly it was labelled by 56^a, 227^p.^[3] In 1908 Gregory gave the number 378 to it.^[1]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Bodleian Library (E. D. Clarke 4) in Oxford.^[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. 61. 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. 69. ISBN 3110119862. 
3. ^ ^{a b c d e} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 268. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n281/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. 132. 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. 

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig. p. 268.