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New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionariesMinuscule 529 Text Gospels Date 12th century Script Greek Now at Bodleian Library Size 14 cm by 10 cm Type Byzantine text-type Category V Note marginalia Minuscule 529 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 149 (in Soden's numbering),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on a parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.[2] Scrivener labeled it by number 484. It was adapted for liturgical use.
Contents
Description
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 362 parchment leaves (size 14 cm by 10 cm). It is written in one column per page, 20 lines per page.[2]
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers of are given at the margin, with their τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, but there is no references to the Eusebian Canons).[3][4]
It contains prolegomena, the tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) are placed before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), incipits, Synaxarion, Menologion, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.[3][4]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx.[5] Aland placed it in Category V.[6]
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 10; in Luke 20 it has mixed Byzantine text. It creates textual pair with minuscule 2694.[5]
History
The manuscript once belonged to Humphrey Wanley (1672–1726).[3] In 1776 the manuscript was bought by Samuel Smalbroke from Lichfield and it was presented by him to the Bodleian Library in 1800.[4]
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament minuscule manuscripts by F. H. A. Scrivener (484) and C. R. Gregory (529).[3] Gregory saw it in 1883.[4]
It is currently housed at the Bodleian Library (Auct. D. inf. 2.21) in Oxford.[2]
See also
References
- ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 67. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n77/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. 78. ISBN 3110119862.
- ^ a b c d 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. 245.
- ^ a b c d Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig. p. 199. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n211/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. p. 62. 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.
Further reading
- Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 199. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n211/mode/2up.
External links
Categories:- Greek New Testament minuscules
- 12th-century biblical manuscripts
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