Minuscule 874 (Gregory-Aland)

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Minuscule 874
Name	Cod. Vaticanus 2187
Text	Gospel of John
Date	13th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Vatican Library
Size	28.5 cm by 19.7 cm
Type	Byzantine?
Category	none

Minuscule 874 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θ^{ε 307} (von Soden),^[1][2] is a 13th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment, with a commentary.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of John with a commentary of Theophylact on 383 parchment leaves (size 28.5 cm by 19.7 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 27 lines per page.^[3][4][5]

Formerly it was known as Codex Columnensis.^[5][6]

Text

Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.^[7]

History

F. H. A. Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 12th or 13th century, C. R. Gregory dated it to the 12th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 13th century.^[4]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (691^e),^[6] Gregory (874^e). Gregory saw it in 1886.^[5]

Currently the manuscript is housed at the Vatican Library (Gr. 2187), in Rome.^[3][4]

See also

Bible portal

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism
• Minuscule 873 (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} 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?ObjID=30874. Retrieved 5 October 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} 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. 267. 
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. 134, 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?ObjID=30874. Retrieved 5 October 2011.