Minuscule 868 (Gregory-Aland)

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Minuscule 868
Text	Gospel of Luke †
Date	17th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Vatican Library
Size	39.9 cm by 26.3 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	commentary

Minuscule 868 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A⁷⁰¹ (von Soden),^[1][2] is a 17th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on paper, with a commentary. The manuscript has no complex context.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Luke on 624 paper leaves (size 39.9 cm by 26.3 cm), with one lacuna. The text is written in one column per page, 26 lines per page.^[3][4] The biblical text is surrounded by a catena.^[5][6]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex placed in Category V.^[7] It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.^[8]

History

F. H. A. Scrivener and C. R. Gregory dated the manuscript to the 17th century.^[6] Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 17th century.^[4]

Probably it was rewritten from minuscule 381.^[5]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (683^e)^[6] and Gregory (868^e). Gregory saw it in 1886.^[5]

Currently the manuscript is housed at the Vatican Library (Gr. 1933), in Rome.^[3][4]

See also

Bible portal

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism
• Minuscule 867 (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. 257. 
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. 98. 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 29 March 2011. 
5. ^ ^{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. 
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. 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. p. 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. 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 29 March 2011.