Minuscule 857 (Gregory-Aland)

Minuscule 857

New Testament manuscript

Text Gospel of Luke, Gospel of John
Date 12th century
Script Greek
Now at Vatican Library
Size 29.4 cm by 21.2 cm
Type Byzantine text-type
Category V
Note commentary

Minuscule 857 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θε28 (von Soden),[1][2] is a 12th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on paper. The manuscript has complex context.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Luke and Gospel of John on 391 paper leaves (size 29.4 cm by 21.2 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 28 lines per page.[3][4] It is ornamented.[1]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages.[5]

It contains Prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each of the Gospels, and a commentary of Theophylact's authorship.[5][6]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Kurt Aland placed it in any Category V.[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 (670e)[6] and Gregory (857e). Gregory saw it in 1886.[5][2]

Currently the manuscript is housed at the Vatican Library (Gr. 645), 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. 1 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 14 March 2011.
  5. 1 2 3 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments 1. Leipzig: J.C. 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. p. 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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