Minuscule 755 (Gregory-Aland)

New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionaries
Minuscule 7554
Text Gospels
Date 16th century
Script Greek
Now at Bibliothèque nationale de France
Size 21 cm by 14 cm
Type Byzantine text-type
Category V
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Minuscule 755 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε606 (von Soden),[1][2] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament written on paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 16th century. The manuscript has complex contents.[3][4] Scrivener labelled it as 771e.[5]

Contents

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 332 paper leaves (size 21 cm by 14 cm).[3][6]

The text is written in one column per page, in 20 lines per page.[3]

It contains pictures. The manuscript is ornamented.[1]

Text

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

It was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method.[8]

History

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 14th century;[5] Gregory dated it to the 16th century.[6] The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 16th century.[4]

The manuscript was brought from Janina.[6]

It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (771) and Gregory (755).[6]

The manuscript is now housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Suppl. Gr. 1080) in Paris.[3][4]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 213.
  2. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 74. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n85/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. 92. ISBN 3110119862. 
  4. ^ a b c Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
  5. ^ a b Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 271. 
  6. ^ a b c d Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 219. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n231/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. 65. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 

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