Minuscule 859 (Gregory-Aland)

New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionaries
Minuscule 859
Text Gospel of Luke †
Date 16th century
Script Greek
Now at Vatican Library
Size 22 cm by 14.5 cm
Type Byzantine text-type
Category none
Note commentary

Minuscule 859 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Νλ50 (von Soden),[1][2] is a 16th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment. The manuscript has not survived in complex context.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Luke 12:32-24:53 on 261 parchment leaves (size 22 cm by 14.5 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 25 lines per page.[3][4] According to F. H. A. Scrivener and C. R. Gregory it was written on paper,[5] but according to Aland on parchment.[3] It contains a commentary.[5][6]

Text

Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.[7] It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.[8]

History

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 15th century, Gregory dated it to the 16th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 16th century.[4]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (672e)[6] and Gregory (859e). Gregory saw it in 1886.[5]

Currently the manuscript is housed at the Vatican Library (Gr. 759), in Rome.[3][4]

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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. 260.
  2. ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 77.
  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. 97. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 227.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 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. 266.
  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. p. 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. 67. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.

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