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New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionariesMinuscule 402 Text Gospels Date 14th century Script Greek Now at Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III Size 15.7 cm by 11.4 cm Type Byzantine text-type Category V Minuscule 402 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 428 (in Soden's numbering),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century.[2] It has marginalia.
Contents
Description
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 253 parchment leaves (15.7 cm by 11.4 cm). It is written in one column per page, in 24 lines per page.[2]
It contains tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin, αναγνωσεις (lessons), subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, numbers of στιχοι, 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 Kr.[4] Aland placed it in Category V.[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family Kr in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It belongs to subgroup 35.[4]
History
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794–1852).[6] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.[3]
The manuscript is currently housed at the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III (Ms. II. A. 5) in Naples.[2]
See also
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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. 71. ISBN 3110119862.
- ^ a b Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 186. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n199/mode/2up.
- ^ 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. 60, 92. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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. 186. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n199/mode/2up.
External links
Categories:- Greek New Testament minuscules
- 14th-century biblical manuscripts
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