Minuscule 580

New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionaries
Minuscule 580
Text Gospels
Date 12th century
Script Greek
Now at National Library of France
Size 15.2 cm by 12.3 cm
Type Byzantine text-type
Category V

Minuscule 580 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1291 (von Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.[2]

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 385 leaves (size 15.2 cm by 12.3 cm). It is written in one column per page, 16 lines per page.[2] The words are written continuously without any separation.

It contains Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian tables, lists of the κεφαλαια are placed before every Gospel, numerals of the κεφαλαια are given at the margin, the τιτλοι, the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 233 Sections – the last in 16:5), (not the Eusebian Canons), lectionary markings, liturgical books with hagiographies (Synaxarion and Menologion).[3]

According to Scrivener it is a beautiful manuscript.[4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 10, but in Luke 20 it belongs to the textual group Π473.[6]

History

The manuscript was examined and described by Paulin Martin,[7] and by William Hatch.

Scrivener labelled it by 744.[4]

The manuscript currently housed in at the National Library of France (Gr. 97), at Paris.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 68.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 81.
  3. ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments 1. Leipzig. p. 205.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 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. 269.
  5. ↑ 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. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  6. ↑ 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. 63. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
  7. ↑ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au N. T., conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 37

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