Minuscule 591

New Testament manuscripts
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Minuscule 591
Text	Gospels, commentary
Date	13th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
Size	29.8 cm by 24 cm
Type	?
Category	none

Minuscule 591 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A ³⁰⁰ (von Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.^[2] The manuscript has complex contents. It was labelled by Scrivener as 883.^[3]

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 220 parchment leaves (size 29.8 cm by 24 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 24 lines per page for biblical text, and 42 lines per page for a commentary.^[2]

It contains tables of the κεφαλαια are given before each Gospel, numbers of the κεφαλαια at the left margin, the τιτλοι with the harmony, and subscriptions at the end. The biblical text is surrounded by a commentary (catena).^[4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex Aland did not place in any Category V.^[5] The text of the manuscript was not examined by using Wisse's Profile Method.^[6] In result the textual character of the codex is unknown.

History

The manuscript was held in the monastery of John Thersiti in Calabria, the monastery was "caput monasterium ordinis Basiliuni".^[4]

The manuscript was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Gregory, who saw it in 1886.^[4]

The manuscript currently is housed at the library of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Corsin 24 (41. G. 16)), at 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. 68. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n79/mode/2up. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 81.
3. ^ 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. 
4. ^ ^{a b c} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 206. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n219/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. 

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig. p. 206. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n219/mode/2up. 

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