Minuscule 571

Minuscule 571

New Testament manuscript
Text	Gospels †
Date	12th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Russian National Library
Size	22.6 cm by 17 cm
Type	Byzantine
Category	V

Minuscule 571 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1294 (in the Soden numbering),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the year 12th century.[2] It was labeled by Scrivener as 474.[3] The manuscript is lacunose.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 194 parchment leaves (size 22.6 cm by 17 cm) with lacunae (John 7:1-21:25). The writing is in one column per page, 22-24 lines per page.[2] It contains the Eusebian tables at the beginning of the manuscript, the tables of the κεφαλαια are placed before each of the Gospels, the Ammonian sections, the Eusebian Canons, lectionary markings, and pictures of the four Evangelists.[4]

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^x.[5] Aland placed it in Category V.[6] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents K^x in Luke 10 and Luke 20. In Luke 1 it has mixed Byzantine text.[5]

History

The manuscript was examined and described by Pogodin and Eduard de Muralt (along with the codices 565-566, 568-570, 572, 574, 575, and 1567), who made first collation of its text. The manuscript was more thoroughly examined by Kurt Treu.

Currently the manuscript is housed at the National Library of Russia (Gr. 98) in Saint Petersburg.[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. 68.
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. 80. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
3. 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. 244.
4. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 204.
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. 63. 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. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.

Further reading

• Eduard de Muralt, Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque Impériale publique (Petersburg 1864).
• Eduard de Muralt, Novum Testamentum Graece (Hamburg, 1848)
• Kurt Treu, Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbiblisi und Erevan, Texte und Untersuchungen 91 (Berlin, 1966), pp. 60–61.