Minuscule 399

Minuscule 399

New Testament manuscript
Text	Gospels †
Date	9th/10th century
Script	Greek
Now at	National Library of Russia
Size	17.3 cm by 11.6 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V

Minuscule 399 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε94 (von Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 9th or 10th century.[2]

Description

The codex contains text of the four Gospels, on 214 parchment leaves (17.3 cm by 11.6 cm). The text is written in one column per page, in 27 lines per page.[2] It contains lectionary markings at the margin.[3]

The texts of John 5:3.4 and Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) are marked by an obelus.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K^1.[4] Aland placed it in Category V.[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family K^x in Luke 10 and Luke 20. In Luke 1 it has a mixture of the Byzantine text-families.[4]

History

The manuscript is dated to the 9th or 10th century.[2] It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory in 1908.[6]

The manuscript is currently housed at the National Library of Russia (Gr. 220) in Saint Petersburg.[2][7]

Scholz's 399

The codex contains incomplete text of the Gospels: John, Luke, and Matthew, on 220 parchment leaves (29.7 cm by 20.8 cm). The text is written in one column per page, in 22 lines per page. It contains prolegomena, the tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, numbers of Verses, and a commentary (of John Chrysostom, in Luke of Bostra's).[8]

The order of Gospels is the same as in codex 90.

It was examined and described by Giuseppe Passini (as 109).[9] It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852),[10] who slightly examined it. Fenton Hort saw it in 1864. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.[8] In 1908 Gregory removed it from the list of the New Testament manuscript, because it is rather a commentary than text and sometimes without text.[6]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Turin National University Library (C. II. 14) in Turin.[11]

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. 62.
2. Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 70. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
3. H. v. Soden, Die Schriften des Neues Testaments, p. 131.
4. 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. 60. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
5. 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.
6. Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 62.
7. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 7 April 2011.
8. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 186.
9. Giuseppe Pasino, Codices Manuscripti Bibliohecae Regii Taurinensis Athenaei, Turin 1742, Teil 2.
10. 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. p. 225.
11. TORINO, BNU, C. II. 14 (Pasini 109)

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 62.
• Kurt Treu, Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan, T & U 90 (Berlin, 1966), pp. 88–90.