| New Testament manuscript | |
| Text | Matthew, Mark |
|---|---|
| Date | 12th century |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | Biblioteca Angelica |
| Size | 29.5 cm by 22 cm |
| Type | Byzantine text-type |
| Category | none |
| Note | commentary |
Minuscule 847 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) is a 12th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment. The manuscript has no complex content.
Description
The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Matthew and Gospel of Mark on 280 parchment leaves (size 29.5 cm by 22 cm), with a catena. The text is written in one column per page, 33 lines per page. The biblical text is surrounded by a catena.
It contains the tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, Synaxarion, subscriptions at the end of the Gospels, and numbers of στιχοι.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.
History
F. H. A. Scrivener and C. R. Gregory dated the manuscript to the 12th century. Other palaeographers dated it to the 14th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 12th century.
The manuscript once belonged to Cardinal Domenico Passionei.
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (723) and Gregory (847). Gregory saw it in 1886.
Currently the manuscript is housed at the Biblioteca Angelica (Ms. 36), in Rome.
See also
References
- ^ Aland, Kurt; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 96. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
- ^ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
- ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 268.
- ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 227.
- 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. 134, 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 77.
Further reading
- Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 227.
External links
- "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 7 March 2011.