Minuscule 856 (Gregory-Aland)

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Minuscule 856
Text	Gospels
Date	1280
Script	Greek
Now at	Vatican Library
Size	33.2 cm by 24.3 cm
Type	Byzantine / mixed
Category	none
Note	commentary

Minuscule 856 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θ^ε300 (von Soden),^[1][2] is a 13th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on paper. The manuscript has complex context.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 349 paper leaves (size 33.2 cm by 24.3 cm). The text is written in two column per page, 44 lines per page.^[3][4]

The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections, whose numbers are given at the margin, but without references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).^[5]

It contains a commentary of Theophylact's authorship.^[5][6]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type with a mixture of other text-types. Kurt Aland did not place it in any Category.^[7]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual cluster 2148 in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20 (weak).^[8]

History

According to the colophon the manuscript was written in 1280.^[3] It was written by Theodor Hagiopetrita, for the wish of one Cyril ordered by Michael Palaeaologus.^[5]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (669^e)^[6] and Gregory (856^e). Gregory saw it in 1886.^[5]

Currently the manuscript is housed at the Vatican Library (Gr. 644), in Rome.^[3][4]

See also

Bible portal

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism
• Minuscule 855 (Gregory-Aland)

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. 264. 
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 c} Aland, Kurt; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 97. ISBN 3110119862. 
4. ^ ^{a b} "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php. Retrieved 10 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} 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. 266. 
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. 134, 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. 67. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 

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 10 March 2011.