Minuscule 862 (Gregory-Aland)

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Minuscule 862
Text	Gospel of John
Date	12th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Vatican Library
Size	27 cm by 22.9 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	commentary

Minuscule 862 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θ^ε29 (von Soden),^[1][2] is a 12th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment. The manuscript has complex context, but without marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of John on 402 parchment leaves (size 27 cm by 22.9 cm), with a catena. The text is written in one column per page, 24 lines per page.^[3][4] The biblical text is surrounded by a catena, the commentary is of Theophylact's authorship.^[5][6][5]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.^[7]

History

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

The name of scribe was Arsenius.^[6]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (675^e)^[5] and Gregory (862^e). Gregory saw it in 1886.^[6]

Currently the manuscript is housed at the Vatican Library (Gr. 1191), in Rome.^[3][4]

See also

Bible portal

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism
• Minuscule 861 (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. 263. 
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. 97. 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} Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 266. 
6. ^ ^{a b c} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 228. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n241/mode/2up. 
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. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 228. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n241/mode/2up. 

External links

• "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php. Retrieved 20 March 2011.