Minuscule 855 (Gregory-Aland)

Minuscule 855

New Testament manuscript

Text Gospels
Date 12th century
Script Greek
Now at Vatican Library
Size 28.5 cm by 21 cm
Type ?
Category none
Note commentary

Minuscule 855 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θε27 (von Soden),[1][2] is a 12th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment. The manuscript has complex context.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 584 parchment leaves (size 28.5 cm by 21 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 36 lines per page.[3][4] It is ornamented.[1]

It contains a commentary of Theophylact's authorship and pictures.[5][6]

Text

Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.[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 12th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 12th century.[4]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (668e)[6] and Gregory (855e). Gregory saw it in 1886.[5]

Currently the manuscript is housed at the Vatican Library (Gr. 643), in Rome.[3][4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 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. 263.
  2. ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 77.
  3. 1 2 Aland, Kurt; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 97. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  4. 1 2 3 "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 10 March 2011.
  5. 1 2 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 227.
  6. 1 2 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. 266.
  7. ↑ 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. pp. 134, 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.

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