Minuscule 742 (Gregory-Aland)

Minuscule 742

New Testament manuscript

Text Gospel of John
Date 15th century
Script Greek
Now at Bibliothèque nationale de France
Size 21.9 cm by 15 cm
Type ?
Category none
Note commentary

Minuscule 742 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θε414 (von Soden),[1][2] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament written on paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 15th century. The manuscript has no complex contents.[3][4] Scrivener labelled it as 764e.[5]

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of John on 160 paper leaves (size 21.9 cm by 15 cm),[3] with one lacuna (John 21:22-25).[6]

The text is written in one column per page, 26-28 lines per page.[3]

It has a commentary of Theophylact.[6]

Text

Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.[7]

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

It lacks the text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11).[6]

History

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 15th or 16th century; Gregory dated it to the 15th century.[6] The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 15th century.[4]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (764) and Gregory (742). It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.[9] Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.[6]

The manuscript is now housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 1775) in Paris.[3][4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 268.
  2. ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 74.
  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. 91. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
  5. ↑ 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. 270.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments 1. Leipzig. p. 218.
  7. ↑ 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.
  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.
  9. ↑ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au N. T., conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 101

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