Minuscule 692

New Testament manuscripts
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Minuscule 692
Text Gospels †
Date 12th century
Script Greek
Now at British Library
Size 20.8 cm by 15.5 cm
Type Byzantine text-type
Category V

Minuscule 692 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε1284 (von Soden),[1][2] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. The manuscript is lacunose.[3][4] Scrivener labelled it by 596e.[5]

Contents

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Matthew, Gospel of Mark, and Gospel of John on 237 parchment leaves (size 20.8 cm by 15.5 cm),[3] with lacuna (Luke 2:7-21). The text is written in one column per page, 23 lines per page.[3][6]

It contains Prolegomena, the tables of the κεφαλαια (contents) are placed before each Gospel, numbers of the κεφαλαια (chapters) are given at the left margin, the τιτλοι (titles), Ammonian Sections (241 sections, the last section in 16:20), a references to the Eusebian Canons (in blue), and illuminated headings to the Gospels.[5][6]

According to Scrivener it is "exquisitely written", with great resemble to Minuscule 71 in text.[5] Edward A. Guy recognised this resemblance as the first.[6]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.[7]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual cluster M27.[8]

History

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 14th century, Gregory dated it to the 12th or 13th century.[6] Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 12th century.[4]

The manuscript was bought from Spyridion Lambros from Athens in 1859, along with 22 other manuscripts of the New Testament (codices: 269, 270, 271, 272, 688, 689, 690, 691, 693, etc.).[6]

It was added to the list of New Testament manuscript by Scrivener (596) and Gregory (692).[5]

It was examined by S. T. Bloomfield and Dean Burgon. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1883.[6]

Actually the manuscript is housed at the British Library (Add. 22740), London.[3][4]

See also

References

  1. ^ Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 167.
  2. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 72. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n83/mode/2up. 
  3. ^ a b c d Aland, K.; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 88. ISBN 3110119862. 
  4. ^ a b c Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
  5. ^ a b c d Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1 (fourth ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 260. 
  6. ^ a b c d e f Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 213. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n225/mode/2up. 
  7. ^ 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. pp. 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. 64. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 

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