- Minuscule 744 (Gregory-Aland)
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New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionariesMinuscule 744 Text Gospels † Date 13th century Script Greek Now at Bibliothèque nationale de France Size 28.8 cm by 21 cm Type ? Category none Note commentary Minuscule 744 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θε22 (von Soden),[1][2] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament written on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. The manuscript has no complex contents.[3][4] Scrivener labelled it as 759e.[5]
Contents
Description
The codex contains the four Gospels on 367 parchment leaves (size 28.8 cm by 21 cm),[3] with one lacuna. Matthew 1:1-3:6 was added later.[6]
The text is written in one 27-line column per page.[3]
It contains tables of the κεφαλαια to Matthew (added later),[6] the τιτλοι (titles) in Matthew, and portrait of Evangelist Luke.[5]
It has a commentary of Theophylact.[6]
Text
Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.[7]
It was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method.[8]
History
Bernard de Montfaucon and Henri Omont dated the manuscript to the 11th century; Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 15th or 16th century; Gregory dated it to the 13th century.[6] The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 13th century.[4]
The manuscript once belonged to the monastery of the St. Justina in Padua (as Minuscule 367).[6]
The manuscript was examined by Bernard de Montfaucon,[9] Paulin Martin,[10] and Henri Omont.[6]
It joined the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (759) and Gregory (744). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.[6]
The manuscript is now at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 219) in Paris.[3][4]
See also
- List of New Testament minuscules
- Biblical manuscript
- Textual criticism
- Minuscule 743 (Gregory-Aland)
References
- ^ Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 262.
- ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 74. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n85/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. 91. ISBN 3110119862.
- ^ a b c Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
- ^ a b Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 270.
- ^ a b c d e f g Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig. p. 218. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n231/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. 133, 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.
- ^ Bernard de Montfaucon, Diarium italicum, p. 78
- ^ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au N.T., conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 99
Further reading
- Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 218. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n231/mode/2up.
External links
Categories:- Greek New Testament minuscules
- 13th-century biblical manuscripts
- Bibliothèque nationale de France collections
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