Minuscule 2814

New Testament manuscripts
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Minuscule 2814
Text Book of Revelation
Date 12th century
Script Greek
Now at Harburg
Type Byzantine text-type
Category V

Minuscule 2814 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Aν20 (Soden). Formerly it was labelled as 1rK in all catalogues,[1] but it was renumbered as a 2814 by Aland. It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, dated palaeographically to the 12th century.[2]

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Description

The codex contains the Book of Revelation with a commentary of Andreas from Caesarea. Last six verses lost (22:16-21). The text is written on a parchment in minuscule, in 1 column per page, 20 lines per page.[2]

The Greek text of the Gospels is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[3]

λυσαντι ημας εκ — P18, אc, A, C, 2020, 2081, 2814
λουσαντι ημας απο — P, 046, 94, 1006, 1859, 2042, 2065, 2073, 2138, 2432

History of the codex

This codex was chiefly used by Desiderius Erasmus as a basis for his first edition of the Novum Testamentum (1516). It was only one manuscript of the Book of Revelation used by Erasmus.[4] In result its readings became a basis for the Textus Receptus. Erasmus borrowed the manuscript from Reuchlin, but it was lost for many years until rediscovered in 1861 by Franz Delitzsch.[5]

The codex is located now in Harburg (Öttingen-Wallersteinsche Bibliothek, I, 1, 4 (0), 1).[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 48. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n59/mode/2up. 
  2. ^ a b c K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 211.
  3. ^ 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. 140. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
  4. ^ W.W. Combs, Erasmus and the textus receptus, DBSJ 1 (Spring 1996), 45.
  5. ^ F. Delizsch, Handschriftliche Funde, Leipzig, 1861.

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