Minuscule 779 (Gregory-Aland)

Minuscule 779

New Testament manuscript

Text Gospels
Date 12th century
Script Greek
Now at National Library of Greece
Size 18.5 cm by 14 cm
Type Byzantine text-type
Category V
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Minuscule 779 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε472 (von Soden),[1][2] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament written on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. The manuscript has complex contents.[3][4]

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 171 parchment leaves (size 18.5 cm by 14 cm).[3] The text is written in one column per page, 26-28 lines per page.[3] Some leaves are wrongly bound.[1]

The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections, but without references to the Eusebian Canons.[5]

It contains lectionary markings at the margin, incipits, liturgical books with hagiographies (Synaxarion, Menologion), and pictures.[5]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx.[6] Aland placed it in Category V.[7]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represent the textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 it has mixed Byzantine text. It is related to Π groups.[6]

History

C. R. Gregory dated the manuscript to the 12th century.[5] The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 12th century.[4]

The manuscript was noticed in catalogue from 1876.[8]

It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory (779). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.[5]

The manuscript is now housed at the National Library of Greece (127) in Athens.[3][4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 197.
  2. ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 75.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 93. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  4. 1 2 3 Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
  5. 1 2 3 4 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 221.
  6. 1 2 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.
  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. ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 219.

Further reading

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