Minuscule 354

Minuscule 354

New Testament manuscript

Text Gospel of Matthew
Date 11th century
Script Greek
Now at Biblioteca Marciana
Size 24.5 cm by 16 cm
Type Byzantine text-type
Category V

Minuscule 354 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θε13 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.[2]

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Matthew 1:1-27:66 on 442 parchment leaves (24.5 cm by 16 cm) with a Commentary of Theophylact. The text us written in one column per page, in 22 lines per page.[2][3] It was written in a very large hand.[4]

Text

Cardinal Bessarion

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[5]

History

The manuscript was bought by Theodor Constantin, in 1415, in Constantinople. It once belonged to Cardinal Bessarion (as codices 205, 357).[3] The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).[6] It was examined by Burgon. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.[3]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Biblioteca Marciana (Gr. Z. 29) in Venice.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 60.
  2. 1 2 3 Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 68. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  3. 1 2 3 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 182.
  4. ↑ 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. 232.
  5. ↑ 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. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  6. ↑ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament 1. London. p. 225.

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