- Minuscule 777 (Gregory-Aland)
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New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionariesMinuscule 777 Text Gospels Date 12th century Script Greek Now at National Library of Greece Size 21.5 cm by 15.5 cm Type Byzantine text-type Category V Note – Minuscule 777 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε469 (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]
Contents
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 185 parchment leaves (size 21.5 cm by 15.5 cm).[3] The text is written in one column per page, 29 lines per page.[3]
It contains 24 pictures.[5]
It contains miniatures similar to those from minuscule 2427.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx.[6] Aland placed it in Category V.[7]
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represent the textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.[6]
It lacks texts of Matthew 16:2b–3 and Luke 22:43-44.[5]
History
C. R. Gregory dated the manuscript to the 12th century.[5] The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 12th century.[4]
The manuscript was noticed in a catalogue from 1876.[8]
It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory (777). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.[5]
The manuscript is now housed at the National Library of Greece (93) in Athens.[3][4]
See also
- List of New Testament minuscules
- Biblical manuscript
- Textual criticism
- Minuscule 776 (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. 197.
- ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 75. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n85/mode/2up.
- ^ a b c d Aland, Kurt; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 93. ISBN 3110119862.
- ^ a b c Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
- ^ a b c d Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 221. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n233/mode/2up.
- ^ 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. 66. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 219. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n231/mode/2up.
Further reading
- Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 221. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n233/mode/2up.
External links
Categories:- Greek New Testament minuscules
- 12th-century biblical manuscripts
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