- Minuscule 443
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New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionariesMinuscule 443 Text Gospels Date 12th century Script Greek Now at Cambridge University Library Size 28 cm by 21.5 cm Type Byzantine text-type Category V Note marginalia Minuscule 443 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 270 (in the Soden numbering),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.[2]
Contents
Description
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 235 parchment leaves (28 cm by 21.5 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, in 24 lines per page.[2] The columns have size only 17.3 by 5.5 cm.[3]
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).[3]
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian Canon tables, prolegomena, lists of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) are placed before each Gospel, Synaxarion, Menologion, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.[4]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual cluster M159.[6]
The Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is marked with an obelus.[3]
History
The manuscript once belonged to Anthony Askew (1722-1774) (as codices 438 and 439). It was bought for the University Library in 1775 for ₤20, at the celebrated book-sale of Anthony Askew.[3] The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).[7] It was examined by C. R. Gregory in 1886.[3]
It is currently housed at the Cambridge University Library (Nn. 2.36) in Cambridge.[2]
See also
References
- ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 64. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n75/mode/2up.
- ^ 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. 73. ISBN 3110119862.
- ^ a b c d e Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 190. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n203/mode/2up.
- ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894 (2005 reprint)). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 239.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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. 60. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
- ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894 (reprint 2005)). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. 1. London. p. 225.
Further reading
- F. H. A. Scrivener, An Exact Transcript of the Codex Augiensis (Cambridge and London, 1859), pp. 35-38.
External links
- Minuscule 443 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism
Categories:- Greek New Testament minuscules
- 12th-century biblical manuscripts
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