Minuscule 826 (Gregory-Aland)

New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionaries
Minuscule 826
Text Gospels
Date 12th century
Script Greek
Now at Biblioteca della Badia
Size 22.8 cm by 17.5 cm
Type Caesarean text-type
Category III
Note beautiful

Minuscule 826 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε218 (von Soden),[1][2] is a 12th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment. It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 233 parchment leaves (size 22.8 cm by 17.5 cm).[3] The text is written in two columns per page, 25–26 lines per page.[3][4]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), and according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 234 sections, the last numbered section in 16:9). The numerals of the κεφαλαια are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages. The Ammonian Sections are given with a references to the Eusebian Canons (written under Ammonian Sections).[5]

It contains the Eusebian Canon tables at the beginning, tables of the κεφαλαια (table of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary markings for liturgical use, incipits, liturgical books: Synaxarion and Menologion, subscriptions at the end each of the Gospels with numbers of stichoi.[5][6]

According to Scrivener it is a beautiful codex.[6]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Caesarean text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Iιc.[7] According to Kurt and Barbara Aland it supports the Byzantine text against the "original" 157 times, original against the Byzantine – 27 times, and 77 times agrees with both. It has also 60 independent or distinctive readings. Alands placed it in Category III.[8]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family f13 (Ferrar Family) in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. It is a perfect member of the family.[7]

It lacks the text of the Matthew 16:2b–3, but it was added by a later hand at the margin. It lacks text of the Christ's agony at Gethsemane (Luke 22:43-44). The text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is relocated and placed after Luke 21:38.[5]

History

Gregory dated the manuscript to the 12th century,[5] other palaeographers dated it to the 11th century.[6] Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 12th century.[4] The manuscript was written in Calabria,[5] in Rhegium (?).[6]

The manuscript was examined and described by Antonio Rocci in 1882.[9] William Henry Simcox collated major part of Luke for the Gregory's wish. It was examined by Kirsopp Lake and Jacob Geerlings. According to Geerlings it is the archetype of the family 13 (Ferrar Family).[10]

It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (624)[6] and Gregory (826e). Gregory saw it in 1886.[5]

Currently the manuscript is housed at the Biblioteca della Badia (A' α. 3), in Grottaferrata.[3][4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Soden, von, Hermann (1902). Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte 1. Berlin: Verlag von Alexander Duncker. p. 154.
  2. ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 76.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Aland, Kurt; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 95. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 23 January 2011.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 225.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 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. 263.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 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. 66. 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. 134. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  9. ↑ Antonio Rocci, Codices cryptenses, seu Abbatiae Cryptae Ferratae in Tusculano digesti et illustrati (Tusculanum 1883).
  10. ↑ J. Geerlings, Is Ms. 826 the archetype of Fam. 13a?, JBL 67 (1948), 357-363.

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