Minuscule 22

New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionaries
Minuscule 22
Name Codex Colbertinus, 2467
Text Gospels †
Date 12th century
Script Greek
Now at Bibliothèque nationale de France
Size 26 cm by 19 cm26 x 19 cm
Type Caesarean text-type
Category none
Hand beautifully written
Note it contains remarkable readings
marginalia

Minuscule 22 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 288 (Soden),[1] known also as Codex Colbertinus 2467. It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on vellum. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.[2] Formerly it was assigned to the 11th century (Tregelles, Scrivener). It has marginalia, it was adapted for liturgical use.

Contents

Description

The codex contains a text of the four Gospels on 232 parchment leaves (26 cm by 19 cm26 cm by 19 cm) with some lacunae (Matthew 1:1-2:2; 4:19-5:25; John 14:22-16:27). The text is written in one column per page, 22 lines per page (17.2 cm by 12 cm), in black ink, the initial letters in gold ink.[3]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, with their τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Matthew 355, in Mark 233), whose numbers are given at the margin, with references to the Eusebian Canons (partially). The references to the Eusebian Canons are incomplete.[3]

It contains tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel. In the 16th century lectionary markings were added at the margin (for liturgical use).[4] The manuscript has a comment about the authenticity of Mark 16:9-20. The manuscript is free from errors of itacism and errors by "homoioteleuton", and very carefully accentuated.[4] Some leaves are dislocated.[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is mixed. According to Streeter it is a representative of the Caesarean text-type, but according to Kurt Aland it has some the Byzantine text-type element, though it is not pure Byzantine manuscript. Aland did not place it in any of Categories of New Testament manuscripts.[5] D. A. Black classified it as the Caesarean text.[6] The text is in close relationship to the textual family f1 but it does not belong to this group.

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual group 22b in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20 as a core member. Wisse listed 22, 134, 149, 351 (part), 1192, and 1210 as members of group 22b.[7]

Matthew 10:12 (see Luke 10:5)

It reads λεγοντες ειρηνη τω οικω τουτω (say peace to be this house) after αυτην. The reading was deleted by the first corrector, but the second corrector restored it. The reading is used by manuscripts: Codex Sinaiticus, Bezae, Regius, Washingtonianus, Koridethi, manuscripts of f 1, 1010 (1424), it, vgcl.[8][9]

I has some remarkable readings. In Matthew 27:9 it has unique textual variant ἐπληρώθη τὸ ῥηθὲν διὰ Ζαχαρίου τοῦ προφήτου (fulfilled what was spoken by Zachariah the prophet). The reading is supported only by some Syriac manuscripts. Another manuscripts usually have "Jeremiah".[10]

History

It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Wettstein. The manuscript was partially examined and collated by Wettstein, Scholz (only 96 verses),[11] F. H. A. Scrivener, and C. R. Gregory.[3] H. A. Sanders gave full a collation of the manuscript in 1914. It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.[12] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.[3]

It is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 72) at Paris.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 49. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n59/mode/2up. 
  2. ^ a b K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 48.
  3. ^ a b c d e Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 134. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n147/mode/2up. 
  4. ^ a b 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. 194. 
  5. ^ Aland, Kurt; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
  6. ^ David Alan Black, New Testament Textual Criticism, Baker Books, 2006, p. 65.
  7. ^ 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. 53, 107–108. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 
  8. ^ NA26, p. 24
  9. ^ Editio octava critica maior, p. 49
  10. ^ NA26, p. 81.
  11. ^ S. P. Tregelles, "An Introduction to the Critical study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures", London 1856, p. 208.
  12. ^ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs relatifs au Nouveau Testament, conservés dans les bibliothèques de Paris (Paris 1883), p. 36-37

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