Minuscule 387

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Minuscule 387
Text	Gospels
Date	12th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Vatican Library
Size	21.8 cm by 16.6 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	member of Kr

Minuscule 387 (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] It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 298 parchment leaves (21.8 cm by 16.6 cm). The text is written in one column per page, in 21 lines per page.^[2]

It contains Prolegomena, lectionary markings at the margin (for Church reading), subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, with numbers of stichoi.^[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^r.^[4] Aland placed it in Category V.^[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family K^r in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It creates textual pair with 1471.^[4]

History

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794–1852).^[6] It was examined and described by Giuseppe Cozza-Luzi.^[7] C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.^[3]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Ottob. gr. 204) 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. 62. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n73/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. 70. ISBN 3110119862. 
3. ^ ^{a b} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 185. 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. pp. 59, 92. 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. 
7. ^ Cozza-Luzi, Giuseppe (1893). Codices manuscripti graeci ottoboniani Bibliothecae Vaticanae descripti praeside Alphonso cardinali Capecelatro archiepiscopo Capuano. London: Ex Typographeo Vaticano. p. 118. http://www.archive.org/stream/codicesmanuscri00cozzgoog#page/n187/mode/2up. 

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 185. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n197/mode/2up. 

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