Minuscule 394

Minuscule 394

New Testament manuscript

Text New Testament (except Rev.)
Date 1330
Script Greek
Now at Biblioteca Vallicelliana
Size 23.5 cm by 16 cm
Type Byzantine text-type
Category V
Note member of Kr

Minuscule 394 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 460 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Dated by a colophon to the year 1330.[2] It was adapted for liturgical use.

Description

The codex contains the text of the New Testament except Book of Revelation on 344 parchment leaves (23.5 cm by 16 cm). It is written in one column per page, in 29 lines per page,[2] in silver ink.

It contains Argumentum, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each book, lectionary equipment on a margin, numbers of stichoi, synaxaria, Menologion, Euthalian Apparatus to the Acts, Catholic and Pauline epistles.[3]

The order of books: Gospels, Acts, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles.[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[4]

Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kr. According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family Kr in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It belongs to subgroup 35.[5]

History

The manuscript was written by Michael, a priest.[3] The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).[6] Oscar von Gebhardt saw it in 1882, C. R. Gregory in 1886.[3]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Biblioteca Vallicelliana (EF. 17) in Rome.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 62.
  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. 70. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 185.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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. pp. 60, 92. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
  6. ↑ 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. 225.

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