Minuscule 568

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Minuscule 568
Epigram about Matthew the Evangelist and verses about the cross
Text	Gospels
Date	10th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Russian National Library
Size	22 cm by 17.5 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V

Minuscule 568 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 189 (in the Soden numbering),^[1][2] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 10th century.^[3]

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 259 parchment leaves (size 22 cm by 17.5 cm). It has ornamented head-pieces. The writing is in one column per page, 24 lines per page.^[3]

It contains Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian tables, tables of the κεφαλαια before every Gospel, numerals of the κεφαλαια at the margin (chapters), the τιτλοι (titles) at the top, the Ammonian Sections, the Eusebian Canons, Synaxarion, Menologion, and pictures.^[4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the K^ak (with hesitation). Aland placed it in Category V.^[5] According to Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family K^x in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.^[6]

History

The manuscript was presented by consul of Syra, Sandrinus.^[4] The manuscripts was examined and described by Eduard de Muralt (along with the codices 565-566, 569-572, 574, 575, and 1567), then by Kurt Treu.

Scrivener labelled it by 879,^[7] Gregory by 568.^[4]

Currently the manuscript is housed at the Russian National Library (Gr. 67) in Saint Petersburg.^[3]

See also

Bible portal

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

1. ^ Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 145.
2. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 68. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n79/mode/2up. 
3. ^ ^{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. 80. ISBN 3110119862. 
4. ^ ^{a b c} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 204. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n217/mode/2up. 
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. ^ 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. 63. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 
7. ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 275. 

Further reading

• Eduard de Muralt, Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque Impériale publique (Petersburg 1864).
• Kurt Treu, Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbiblisi und Erevan, Texte und Untersuchungen 91 (Berlin, 1966), pp. 50–53.

External links

• Minuscule 568 at the Evangelical Criticism