Minuscule 652 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), ε1095 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on parchment. Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it has been assigned to the 10th century. The manuscript has complex contents,[2] with "an interesting textual character".[3]: 48 Biblical scholar Frederick H. A. Scrivener labelled it as 875.[4]
| New Testament manuscript | |
 | |
| Text | Gospels |
|---|---|
| Date | 10th century |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | Bavarian State Library |
| Size | 22.4 cm by 16.7 cm |
| Type | Byzantine text-type |
| Category | none |
Description
editThe manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book), containing the complete text of the four Gospels, on 305 parchment leaves (size 22.4 cm by 16.7 cm). It is written in one column per page, 20 lines per page.[2] Colour portraits of the four evangelists are included in the manuscript, inlaid with gold, and the headpieces containing the Gospel Titles have been described as "elaborately decorated" containing "an intricately decorated gold initial".[3]: 49 Chapter titles are written in red ink.[3]: 49
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum (a letter by the early church Father Eusebius of Caesarea, outlining his Gospel content system), the Eusebian tables, the chapter tables (known as κεφαλαια / kephalaia), numerals of the κεφαλαια in the margin, the titles (known as τιτλοι / titloi), Ammonian Sections, the Eusebian Canons, (lectionary markings, incipits), Synaxarion, Menologion, subscriptions, and Icons of the Evangelists before each of their respective Gospels.[5]
Text
editThe Greek text of the codex is considered a representative of the Byzantine text-type. The text-types are groups of different New Testament manuscripts which share specific or generally related readings, which then differ from each other group, and thus the conflicting readings can separate out the groups. These are then used to determine the original text as published; there are three main groups with names: Alexandrian, Western, and Byzantine.[6] Its relationship with other manuscripts is not commented on by textual critic Kurt Aland, who did not place it in any Category of his New Testament manuscripts classification system.[7] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Πa in Luke 1, and Kx in Luke 10 and Luke 20.[8]
Biblical scholar Silva Lake discovered it represents the text of Family 1 in Mark 4:20-6:24, and in the rest of Mark it coincides with the text of Family Π,[9] hence the manuscript has a sort of "block mixture" between the two groups.[3]
A later hand has added the following to John 8:8 in the margin:
- ενος εκαστου αυτων τας αμαρτιας
- (sins of every one of them).[5]
This textual variant is also found in Codex Nanianus (U), and the minuscules Minuscule 73, 95, 331, 364, 700, 782, 1592, and some Armenian manuscripts. Minuscule 264 includes this textual variant in John 8:6.[10]
History
editThe manuscript once belonged to Otto of Greece (King of Greece 1832-1862) and was brought to Germany in 1879.[5] Biblical scholar Caspar René Gregory saw the manuscript in 1887, and dated it to the 10th or 11th century.[5] The manuscript is now dated by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research (INTF) to the 10th century.[11] The manuscript is currently housed at the Bavarian State Library (shelf number Gr. 594), in Munich.[2][11]
See also
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References
edit- ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs. p. 71.
- ^ a b c Kurt Aland; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 85.
- ^ a b c d Mitchell, Timothy Nathaniel. Family Π in the Gospel of Mark (PhD thesis). University of Birmingham. p. 23.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs. p. 209.
- ^ Metzger, Bruce Manning; Ehrman, Bart D. (2005). The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration (4th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 205–230. ISBN 0-19-516667-1.
- ^ 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. 133, 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ 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. 64. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
- ^ Lake, Silva (1936). Family Π and the Codex Alexandrinus: The Text According to Mark. London: Waverly Press. pp. 33–36.
- ^ Aland, Kurt; Black, Matthew; Martini, Carlo Maria; Metzger, Bruce M.; Wikgren, Allen, eds. (1981). Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece (26 ed.). Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelstiftung. pp. 273–274. ISBN 3-438-051001. (NA26)
- ^ a b Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute