- Minuscule 727 (Gregory-Aland)
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New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionariesMinuscule 727 Text Gospels Date 14th century Script Greek Now at Bibliothèque nationale de France Size 34.4 cm by 25 cm Type Byzantine text-type Category V Note – Minuscule 727 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θε411 (von Soden),[1][2] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament written on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century. The manuscript is lacunose.[3][4] Scrivener labelled it as 745e.[5]
Contents
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 246 parchment leaves (size 34.4 cm by 25 cm), with some lacunae.[3][6] It lacks texts of Matthew 16:4-17:6.[6]
The text is written in two columns per page, 50 lines per page.[3]
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), with their τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top.[6] There is no a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, no references to the Eusebian Canons.[6]
It contains double Prolegomena, lists of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents), and a commentary of Theophylact.[6]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[7]
It was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method.[8]
History
Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 16th century, Gregory dated it to the 14th century.[6] The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 14th century.[4]
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (745) and Gregory (727). It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.[9] Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.[6]
The manuscript is now housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 179) in Paris.[3][4]
See also
References
- ^ Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 267.
- ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 73. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n83/mode/2up.
- ^ a b c d Aland, K.; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 90. ISBN 3110119862.
- ^ a b c Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
- ^ 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. 269.
- ^ a b c d e f g Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 216. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n229/mode/2up.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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. 65. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
- ^ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au N. T., conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 49
Further reading
- Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig. p. 216. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n229/mode/2up.
External links
Categories:- Greek New Testament minuscules
- 14th-century biblical manuscripts
- Bibliothèque nationale de France collections
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