Minuscule 886

Minuscule 886

New Testament manuscript
Name	Cod. Regin. grec. 6
Text	New Testament †
Date	15th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Vatican Library
Size	34.6 cm by 24.5 cm
Type	Byzantine
Category	V

Minuscule 886 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering),[1] is a 15th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on paper, with a commentary. The manuscript has not survived in complete condition.

Description

The codex contains the text of the New Testament (except Catholic epistles), with a commentary, on 336 paper leaves (size 34.6 cm by 24.5 cm).[2] The text is written in one column per page, 59 lines per page.[2][3]

The commentary is of authorship of Nicetas of Naupactus in the Gospels, of Theophylact in the Acts of the Apostles and Pauline epistles. The Apocalypse has a commentary of an anonymous writer.[4][5]

It contains the Eusebian Canon tables (before four Gospels), κεφαλαια lists before each biblical book.[4]

Text

Kurt and Barbara Aland gave the textual profile 209^1, 99^2, 2^1/2, 14^s in the Gospels, 15^1, 3^2, 3^1/2, 4^s in the Acts, and 171^1, 43^2, 9^1/2, 23^s in the Pauline epistles. On the basis of this profile Alands placed it in Category V.[6] It means it is a representative of the Byzantine text-type.[7]

It was not examined according to the Claremont Profile Method.[8]

History

The manuscript is dated by a colophon to the year 1454.[6] Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 15th century.[3]

It once belonged to Ignatius, metropolitan, then to Demetrius Leontari, then to Christian Baue in Berlin.[4] The manuscript was described by Henry Stevenson.[4][9] Gregory saw it in 1886.[4] The text of the Apocalypse was collated by Herman C. Hoskier.[10]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (698^e),[5] Gregory (886^e).[4]

The manuscript was digitized by the INTF.

Currently the manuscript is housed at the Vatican Library (Reg. gr. 6), in Rome.[2][3]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules (1–1000)
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

1. Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 78.
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. 99. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
3. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
4. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. pp. 229–230.
5. 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. 267.
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. 134. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
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. pp. 106, 159. 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.
9. Henry Stevenson described also minuscule manuscripts: 154, 884, 885, 887.
10. Herman C. Hoskier, Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse 1 (London 1929), p. 389.

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. pp. 229–230.
• Henry Stevenson, Codices manuscripti Graeci Reginae Svecorum et Pii Pp. II. Bibliothecae Vaticanae, descripti praeside I.B. Cardinali Pitra, Rom 1888, pp. 4–6.

External links

• "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 21 February 2013.