Minuscule 673

New Testament manuscripts
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Minuscule 673
Text Gospels †
Date 12th century
Script Greek
Now at Cambridge University Library
Size 20.7 cm by 15.8 cm
Type Byzantine text-type
Category V

Minuscule 673 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1391 (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 very lacunose.[3][4] Scrivener labelled it by 619e.[5]

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 164 parchment leaves (size 20.7 cm by 15.8 cm),[3] with numerous lacunae (Matthew 1:1-10:42; 13:3-16; 27:24-37; Mark 14:21–Luke 3:16; 4:35-5:23; 7:4-15; Gospel of John).[1] The text is written in one column per page, 19 lines per page.[3][6]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), which numerals are given at the margin. The tables of the κεφαλαια are placed before every Gospel. There is no the Ammonian Sections, a references to the Eusebian Canons, or the τιτλοι (titles).[5] It contains a lectionary markings, αναγνωσεις (lessons), subscriptions, and στιχοι.[6]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kr.[7] Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.[8]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents family Kr in Luke 10; in Luke 1 and Luke 20 the manuscript is defective.[7]

History

Scrivener and 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 in 1874.[6] It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener and Gregory. Gregory saw it in 1883.[6] It was examined by Hort and Henry Brandshaw.[5]

Actually the manuscript is housed at the Cambridge University Library (Add. Mss. 1837) in Cambridge.[3][4]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 187.
  2. ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 72.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 87. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 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. 263.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 211.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Frederik Wisse, The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke, William B. Eerdmans Publishing (Grand Rapids, 1982), p. 64.
  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. pp. 133, 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.

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