Minuscule 598

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Minuscule 598
Text	Gospel of Luke
Date	13th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Biblioteca Marciana
Size	43 cm by 28 cm
Type	?
Category	none

Minuscule 598 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A^ν31Ν^λ35 (von Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.^[2] The manuscript has complex contents. It was labeled by Scrivener as 466.^[3]

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Luke on 58 paper leaves (size 43 cm by 28 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 50-74 lines per page.^[2] It contains also a commentary and various Patristic matter. All codex has 320 leaves.^[4]

Text

Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.^[5] It was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method.^[6]

History

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener. It was examined by Dean Burgon. Gregory saw it in 1886.^[4]

The manuscript currently is housed at the Biblioteca Marciana (Gr. Z. 494 (331), fol. 1-58), at Venice.^[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. 69. 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. 82.
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. 243. 
4. ^ ^{a b} 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. 64. 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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