Minuscule 898 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε362 (von Soden),[1] is a 13th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment. It has marginalia. The manuscript has not survived in complete condition.

Minuscule 898
New Testament manuscript
TextGospels
Date13th century
ScriptGreek
Found1869
Now atEdinburgh University Library
Historical Museum of Crete
Size19.4 cm by 14.3 cm
TypeByzantine
CategoryV
Notemarginalia

Description

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The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 97 parchment leaves (size 19.4 cm by 14.3 cm), with some lacunae.[2] The text is written in one column per page, 28 lines per page.[2][3] It contains also liturgical books with hagiographies: Synaxarion and Menologion.[4]

It has numerous lacunae in the Gospel of Matthew, Luke, and John. Only Gospel of Mark is complete.[4]

The text of the Gospels is divided according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 236 sections, the last section in Mark 16:14), whose numbers are given at the margin. There is no references to the Eusebian Canons.[4]

It contains subscriptions at the end of each of the Gospels. Lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use) were added by a later hand.[4]

Text

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The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.[5]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Kx in Luke 10, in Luke 1 it has a mixture of Byzantine textual families, in Luke 20 no profile was made because the manuscript is defective. The manuscript has also some lacunae in Luke 1 and Luke 10. It has some textual relationship to Codex Campianus.[6]

History

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According to C. R. Gregory it was written in the 13th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 13th century.[3] It was bought by David Laing in 1869. Gregory saw it in 1883.[4]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory (898e).[4] It was not on the Scrivener's list, but it was added to his list by Edward Miller in the 4th edition of A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament.[7]

It is not cited in critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS4,[8] NA28[9]).

79 leaves of the manuscript is housed at the Edinburgh University Library (Ms. 221 (D Laing 667)), in Edinburgh and 18 leaves Historical Museum of Crete (no shelf number).[2][3]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 78.
  2. ^ 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. 100. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  3. ^ a b c "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. pp. 230–231.
  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. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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. 276.
  8. ^ Aland, B.; Aland, K.; Karavidopoulos, J.; 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.
  9. ^ Nestle, Eberhard et Erwin; communiter ediderunt: B. et K. Aland, J. Karavidopoulos, C. M. Martini, B. M. Metzger (2001). Novum Testamentum Graece (27 ed.). Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft. p. 812. ISBN 978-3-438-05100-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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