Minuscule 107

Minuscule 107

New Testament manuscript
Name	Codex Ravianus
Text	Gospels
Date	13th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Bodleian Library
Size	21.7 cm by 16.7 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	marginalia

Minuscule 107 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 344 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.[2]

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 351 parchment leaves (21.7 cm by 16.7 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 18-22 lines per page.[2] The initial letters in gold.[3]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, the τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages.[3]

It contains tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, and pictures.[4]

It was written by more than one scribe. The first page of Matthew is written in gold.[3]

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K^x.[5] Aland placed it in Category V.[6] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents mixed Byzantine text in Luke 1, textual family K^x in Luke 20, in Luke 10 no profile was made.[5]

History

It was examined by Wettstein, Griesbach, and Scholz.[4] Wettsteins's and Griesbach's 107 is Gregory's minuscule 201. Scholz dated the manuscript to the 14th century.[3]

C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.[3]

It is housed at the Bodleian Library (E. D. Clarke 6) at Oxford.[2]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

1. Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 52.
2. K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 53.
3. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 152.
4. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. pp. 208–209.
5. 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. 54. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
6. 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. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 152.