Minuscule 800
37°58′52.5″N 23°43′59.4″E / 37.981250°N 23.733167°E
| New Testament manuscript | |
| Text | Gospels |
|---|---|
| Date | 12th century |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | National Library of Greece |
| Size | 27 cm by 19.5 cm |
| Type | Byzantine text-type |
| Category | none |
| Note | – |
Minuscule 800 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A407 (von Soden),[1][2] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament written on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. The manuscript is lacunose.
Description
[edit]The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 217 parchment leaves (size 27 cm by 19.5 cm),[3] with some lacunae (John 13:29-18:23; 19:24-21:25).[4] The biblical text is surrounded by catenae.[3][5] The biblical text is written in 21 lines per page, the text of the commentary in 50 lines per page.[4]
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, with their τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages (with a Harmony). There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 234 sections, the last section in 16:9), with references to the Eusebian Canons.[4]
It contains Prolegomena to Mark and John, lists of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each of the Gospels, and subscriptions at the end each of the Gospels.[4] Subscriptions were added by a later hand.[1]
Text
[edit]Aland the Greek text of the codex did not placed in any Category V.[6]
It was not examined according to the Claremont Profile Method.[7]
It lacks the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11).[4]
History
[edit]According to C. R. Gregory the manuscript was written in the 12th century.[4] The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 12th century.[5]
It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory (800). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.[4]
The manuscript is now housed at the National Library of Greece (65) in Athens.[3][5]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ a b Soden, von, Hermann (1902). Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte. Vol. 1. Berlin: Verlag von Alexander Duncker. p. 256.
- ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 75.
- ^ 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. 94. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
- ^ a b c d e f g Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 223.
- ^ a b c "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 16 November 2010.
- ^ Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). 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. 66. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 223.