Minuscule 759 (Gregory-Aland)

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Minuscule 759
Text	Gospels
Date	13th century
Script	Greek
Now at	National Library of Greece
Size	21 cm by 14 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	lacks John 8:3-11 marginalia

Minuscule 759 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε397 (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 complex contents.^[3][4] Scrivener labelled it as 848^e.^[5] It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 295 parchment leaves (size 21 cm by 14 cm).^[3] The text is written in one column per page, 23-24 lines per page.^[3]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).^[6]

It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian tables, Prolegomena of Theophylact, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents), lectionary markings at the margin, incipits, Synaxarion, Menologion, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, αναγνωσεις (lessons), and pictures.^[5][6]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K^x. Aland placed it in Category V.^[7]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family K^x in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.^[8]

It contains the beginning of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:2) without verses 8:3-11.^[6]

History

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 13th century;^[5] Gregory dated the manuscript to the 13th or 14th century.^[6] The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 13th century.^[4]

In 1870 it was presented to one Nicholas from Athens.^[6]

It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (848)^[5] and Gregory (759). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.^[6]

The manuscript is now housed at the National Library of Greece (152) in Athens.^[3][4]

See also

Bible portal

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism
• Minuscule 758 (Gregory-Aland)

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. 181.
2. ^ 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. 
3. ^ ^{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. 92. ISBN 3110119862. 
4. ^ ^{a b c} Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
5. ^ ^{a b c d} 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. 274. 
6. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 219. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n231/mode/2up. 
7. ^ 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. 
8. ^ 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. 

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 219. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n231/mode/2up. 

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