Minuscule 888

Minuscule 888
New Testament manuscript
NameVenetus Graecus Z. 26 (340)
TextGospels
Date14th century
ScriptGreek
Now atBiblioteca Marciana
Size37.5 cm by 26.5 cm
TypeByzantine
Categorynone
Notemarginalia

Minuscule 888 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θε430 (von Soden),[1][2] is a 14th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on paper, with a commentary. The codex has an unusual order of the Gospels. The manuscript was prepared for liturgical use.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, with a commentary, on 307 paper leaves (size 37.5 cm by 26.5 cm).[3] The text is written in one column per page, 47 lines per page.[3][4] The Gospels follow in an unusual order: Matthew, John, Mark and Luke (as 594).[5]

The text of the Gospels is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages.[5] It contains Prolegomena, tables of κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.[5]

Folios 1-63 contain a commentary to the Prophets by Theophylact of Ohrid.[5] It contains some additional non-biblical matter at the end.[5]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is unknown. Kurt Aland did not place it in any Category.[6] It was not examined according to the Claremont Profile Method.[7]

History

According to C. R. Gregory it was written in the 14th or 15th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 14th century.[4] The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (888e)[8] and Gregory (888e).[5][2] Gregory saw it in 1886.[5]

It is not cited in critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS4,[9] NA28[10]). Currently the manuscript is housed at the Biblioteca Marciana (Gr. Z. 26 (340)), in Venice.[3][4]

See also

References

  1. ^ Soden, von, Hermann (1902). Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte. Vol. 1. Berlin: Verlag von Alexander Duncker. p. 269.
  2. ^ a b Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 78.
  3. ^ a b c 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.
  4. ^ a b c "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 230.
  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.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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. 275.
  9. ^ Aland, B.; Aland, K.; J. Karavidopoulos, C. M. Martini, B. Metzger, A. Wikgren (1993). The Greek New Testament (4 ed.). Stuttgart: United Bible Societies. p. 18*. ISBN 978-3-438-05110-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ Nestle, Eberhard et Erwin (2001). Novum Testamentum Graece. communiter ediderunt: B. et K. Aland, J. Karavidopoulos, C. M. Martini, B. M. Metzger (27 ed.). Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft. p. 812. ISBN 978-3-438-05100-4.

Further reading

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