Minuscule 765 (Gregory-Aland)

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Minuscule 765
Text	Gospels
Date	12th century
Script	Greek
Now at	National Library of Greece
Size	18 cm by 12.5 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	—

Minuscule 765 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε478 (von Soden),^[1][2] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament written on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. The manuscript has complex contents.^[3][4] Scrivener labelled it as 856^e.^[5]

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 229 parchment leaves (size 18 cm by 12.5 cm),^[3] with one lacuna. The text is written in one column per page, 29-31 lines per page.^[3] It lacks texts of John 19:5-21:25 were supplied by a later hand on paper.^[6]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, with their τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 240 sections, the last in 16:19), but without a references to the Eusebian Canons.^[6]

It contains tables of the κεφαλαια before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin, incipits, Synaxarion, Menologion, subscriptions at the end, and στιχοι.^[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.^[7] Aland placed it in Category V.^[8]

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. It belongs to the textual cluster 550.^[7]

History

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 14th century;^[5] Gregory dated the manuscript to the 12th century.^[6] The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 12th century.^[4]

The manuscript belonged to the monastery του Δεοντιου, and it was presented to the Museum in Aegina.^[6]

It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (856)^[5] and Gregory (765). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.^[6]

The manuscript is now housed at the National Library of Greece (158) in Athens.^[3][4]

See also

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• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism
• Minuscule 763 (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. 197.
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. 220. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n233/mode/2up. 
7. ^ ^{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. 65. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 
8. ^ 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. 

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig. p. 220. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n233/mode/2up. 

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