| New Testament manuscript | |
| Text | Gospels |
|---|---|
| Date | 1159 |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | British Library |
| Size | 31.7 cm by 24.5 cm |
| Type | Byzantine text-type |
| Category | V |
Minuscule 439 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Scrivener 439, ε 240 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1159. The marginal apparatus is complete. The text represents the Byzantine tradition.
Description
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 219 parchment leaves (31.7 cm by 24.5 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, in 23 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, pictures (portraits of Evangelists), and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.
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. Aland placed it in Category V. According to the Claremont Profile Method it re presents the textual family K in Luke 1 and Luke 20, and belongs to the textual cluster 877. In Luke 10 no profile was made.
History
The manuscript was written by Nephon, a monk from Athos in April, 1159. It once belonged to Anthony Askew (1722–1774) (as codices 438 and 443). It was examined by Bloomfield. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794–1852). C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.
It is currently housed at the British Library in London (Add MS 5107) .
See also
References
- Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 64.
- ^ Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 73. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
- ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 190.
- Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 239.
- ^ 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. 60. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
- 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.
- 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. 225.
- "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
Further reading
- Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 190.
External links
- Add MS 5107 Digitised Manuscripts at the British Library