Minuscule 850 (Gregory-Aland)

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Minuscule 850
Text	Gospel of John
Date	12th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Vatican Library
Size	28.3 cm by 20.8 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type / mixed
Category	none
Note	commentary

Minuscule 850 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Κ^ι20 (von Soden),^[1][2] is a 12th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment. The manuscript has no complex context.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of John (7:25-10:18) on 381 parchment leaves (size 28.3 cm by 20.8 cm), with a catena. The text is written in one column per page, 21 lines per page.^[3][4] The biblical text is surrounded by a catena, the commentary is of Cyril's authorship.^[5][6]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type.^[7] Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.^[8]

History

F. H. A. Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 10th century,^[6] C. R. Gregory dated it to the 12th century.^[5] Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 12th century.^[4]

The manuscript once belonged to the Jesuits Collegium in Paris as a gift from Octavio Bulgarini. Then belonged to Barberini. Minuscule 849 (17th century) probably was rewritten from this manuscript.^[5]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (729^e)^[6] and Gregory (850^e). Gregory saw it in 1886.^[5]

Currently the manuscript is housed at the Vatican Library (Barb. gr. 504), in Rome.^[3][4]

See also

Bible portal

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

1. ^ Soden, von, Hermann (1902). Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte. 1. Berlin: Verlag von Alexander Duncker. p. 249. 
2. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 77. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n87/mode/2up. 
3. ^ ^{a b} Aland, Kurt; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 96. ISBN 3110119862. 
4. ^ ^{a b c} "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php. Retrieved 9 March 2011. 
5. ^ ^{a b c d} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 227. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n239/mode/2up. 
6. ^ ^{a b c} Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 268. 
7. ^ David Alan Black, New Testament Textual Criticism, Baker Books, 2006, p. 64.
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. 134, 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 227. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n239/mode/2up. 

External links

• "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php. Retrieved 9 March 2011.