Minuscule 699

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Minuscule 699
Folio 41 verso, the beginning of the Epistle to Titus
Text	New Testament †
Date	11th century
Script	Greek
Now at	British Library
Size	29.3 cm by 20.6 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V

Minuscule 699 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ104 (von Soden),^[1][2] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. Some leaves of the manuscript were lost. Scrivener labelled it by 603^e.^[3]

Description

The codex contains the text of the New Testament on 369 parchment leaves (size 29.3 cm by 20.6 cm),^[4] with some lacunae^[4][5] (Romans 16:19-27; 1 Cor 1:1-11; 2 Cor 10:9-13:13; Gal 1:1-12). Four leaves are unfoliated on paper.^[6] The order of books is usual for the Greek manuscripts: Gospels, Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles (Hebrews before 1 Timothy), Apocalypse.^[7]

The text is written in one column per page, 30 lines per page. The text of Matthew 23:1-20 was supplied by a later hand.^[7] The headpieces in colour and gold, the large initials in colours and gold, at the beginning of books, small initials in red and gold.^[6]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the left margin; the τιτλοι (titles) are given at the top or bottom of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 241, the last section in 16:20), but there are no references to the Eusebian Canons.^[8]

It contains the tables of the κεφαλαια before each Gospel, lectionary markings in the margin, and subscriptions at the end, Synaxarion, and Menologion.^[3][7] It contains many brief scholia on the margin made by prima manu.^[8] At the end on three leaves are unfinished επιγραμμα of Pseudo-Dorotheus, Bishop of Tyre, on the Seventy disciples and the 12 Apostles.^[9]

In the Pauline epistles occur iota adscriptum, and N ephelkystikon always with verbs (except Hebrews 1:14; 12:8.11) is frequent; errors of itacismus occur 49 times: αι (for ε) 5; ε (for αι) 2; ι (for ει) 5; ει (for ι) 8; ει (for η) 5; η (for ει) 3; ω (for ο) 6; ο (for ω) 9; ι (for η) 2; η (for ι) 3; ε (for η) 1; υ (for οι) 1.^[9]

There are omissions by homoioteleuton in Philemon 2:20; 2 Thessalonians 3:4; 1 Timothy 1:9; 2 Timothy 4:11.^[9]

Text

Folio 18 recto of the codex, the beginning of the 1 Thessalonians, with the decorated headpiece

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it as part of the textual family Family K¹.^[10] According to Soden this group represents the oldest form of the Byzantine text, descends from the 4th century and was a result of Lucian's recension.^[11]

Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex placed it in Category V.^[12]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual group K^x in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It creates a textual cluster with Codex Athous Dionysiou.^[10]

It lacks the text of Matthew 16:2b–3 (signs of the times).^[3]

It has some remarkable readings but they are very rare.^[9]

History

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 10th or 11th century, Gregory dated the manuscript to the 11th century.^[3][7] Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 11th century.^[5] Probably it was written in Constantinople.^[6]

In 1864, the manuscript was in the possession of a dealer at Janina in Epeiros. It was then purchased from him by a representative of Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814–1906), a philanthropist,^[13] along with other Greek manuscripts of the New Testament.^[7] They were transported to England in 1871.^[14] Part of the manuscript (Egerton 3145) was purchased by the British Museum, in 8 October 1938.^[6]

The manuscript was presented by Burdett-Coutts to Sir Roger Cholmely's School, and was housed at the Highgate (Burdett-Coutts II. 4), in London.^[15] Scrivener examined and collated its text. His collation was edited posthumously in 1893.^[16]

It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (603) and Gregory (699).^[3]

It was examined and described by S. T. Bloomfield, Dean Burgon, Edward A. Guy. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1883.^[7] Herman C. Hoskier collated text of the Apocalypse.^[17]

The manuscript is housed at the British Library, in two collections. 302 leaves are housed in the Additional Manuscripts (28815) and 67 leaves are housed in collection Egerton (3145).^[4][5]

See also

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• 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. 105.
2. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 72. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n83/mode/2up. 
3. ^ ^{a b c d e} Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1 (fourth ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. pp. 260–261. 
4. ^ ^{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. 88. ISBN 3110119862. 
5. ^ ^{a b c} Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
6. ^ ^{a b c d} Egerton 3145 at the British Library
7. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 213. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n225/mode/2up. 
8. ^ ^{a b} F. H. A. Scrivener, Adversaria critica sacra (Cambridge, 1893), p. LXXXV
9. ^ ^{a b c d} F. H. A. Scrivener, Adversaria critica sacra (Cambridge, 1893), p. LXXXVI
10. ^ ^{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. 64. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 
11. ^ H. von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments, I/2, p. 718.
12. ^ 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. pp. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
13. ^ Parker, Franklin (1995). [0826512569 George Peabody, a biography]. Vanderbilt University Press. pp. 107. 0826512569. 
14. ^ Robert Mathiesen, An Important Greek Manuscript Rediscovered and Redated (Codex Burdett-Coutts III.42), The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 76, No. 1 (Jan., 1983), pp. 131–133.
15. ^ F. H. A. Scrivener, Adversaria critica sacra (Cambridge, 1893), p. LXXXIV
16. ^ F. H. A. Scrivener, Adversaria critica sacra (Cambridge, 1893), pp. 1–59.
17. ^ Herman C. Hoskier, Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse (London 1929), vol. 1, p. 281

Further reading

• S. T. Bloomfield, Critical Annotations: Additional and Supplementary on the New Testament (1860).
• Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener, Adversaria Critica Sacra: With a Short Explanatory Introduction (Cambridge, 1893), pp. LXXXIV–LXXXVI, 1–59. (as δ).
• Herman C. Hoskier, Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse (London 1929), vol. 1, p. 281. (for Apocalypse)

External links

• Egerton 3145 at the British Library