Minuscule 29

Minuscule 29

New Testament manuscript

Text Gospels
Date 10th-century
Script Greek
Now at National Library of France
Size 18.1 cm by 14.1 cm
Type Byzantine text-type
Category V

Minuscule 29 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1022 (Soden).[1] It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on vellum. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th-century.[2][3]

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 169 parchment leaves (18.1 cm by 14.1 cm).[2] In the three later Gospels some leaves lost (Matthew 1-15; Mark 16:15-20; Luke 4:28-5:7), and were supplied in the 15th-century by paper leaves.[4][5] The text is written in one column per page, 30 lines per page.[2] It is beautifully but carelessly written by a Latin scribe.[4] The initial letters are written in colour.[5]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages.There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 234, the last in 16:9) with references to the Eusebian Canons.[5]

It contains the Prolegomena of Cosmas, Eusebian Canon tables at the beginning, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, liturgical books with hagiographies (Synaxarion and Menologion), and scholia at the margin.[5]

It contains corrections on the margin made by prima manu.[5]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland place it in Category V.[6]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It was corrected toward Πb.[7]

History

F. H. A. Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 12th-century. Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 10th-century.[2][3]

The manuscript was brought from Greece.[4] It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by J. J. Wettstein, who gave it the number 29.[8]

The manuscript was examined by John Mill (Colbertinus 3). Mill compares its text with that of Minuscule 71 and found some affinities. Scholz (1794-1852) examined only texts of Mark 1-5 and John 5-8.[5] It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.[9] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.[5]

It is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 89) at Paris.[2][3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 49.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 48.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 2013-09-26.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 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. 194.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 135.
  6. ↑ 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. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  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. p. 53. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
  8. ↑ 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. 72. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  9. ↑ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 41

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