- Minuscule 859 (Gregory-Aland)
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New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionariesMinuscule 859 Text Gospel of Luke † Date 16th century Script Greek Now at Vatican Library Size 22 cm by 14.5 cm Type Byzantine text-type Category none Note commentary Minuscule 859 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Νλ50 (von Soden),[1][2] is a 16th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment. The manuscript has not survived in complex context.
Contents
Description
The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Luke 12:32-24:53 on 261 parchment leaves (size 22 cm by 14.5 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 25 lines per page.[3][4] According to F. H. A. Scrivener and C. R. Gregory it was written on paper,[5] but according to Aland on parchment.[3] It contains a commentary.[5][6]
Text
Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.[7] It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.[8]
History
Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 15th century, Gregory dated it to the 16th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 16th century.[4]
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (672e)[6] and Gregory (859e). Gregory saw it in 1886.[5]
Currently the manuscript is housed at the Vatican Library (Gr. 759), in Rome.[3][4]
See also
- List of New Testament minuscules
- Biblical manuscript
- Textual criticism
- Minuscule 858 (Gregory-Aland)
References
- ^ 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. 260.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
- ^ a b c Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 227. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n239/mode/2up.
- ^ a b 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. 266.
- ^ 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. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ 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 16 March 2011.
Categories:- Greek New Testament minuscules
- 16th-century biblical manuscripts
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