Minuscule 304
New Testament manuscript
TextMatthew, Mark
Date12th century
ScriptGreek
Now atBibliothèque nationale de France
Size27.5 cm by 21 cm
TypeByzantine text-type
CategoryV
Notecommentary

Minuscule 304 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A215Cμ23 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.[2]

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Matthew and Gospel of Mark on 224 parchment leaves (27.5 cm by 21 cm) with only one lacuna in Mark 14:16-25. The text is written in one column per page, in 31-33 lines per page.[2] The biblical text is surrounded by a catena.[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[4] According to Hermann von Soden it has Antiocheian commentated text (Antiocheian = Byzantine).[5]

It does not contain the text of the Longer Ending of Mark.[6]

Hermann von Soden lists it as having the "Anonymous Catena" on Matthew (along with 366 and 2482).[5]

History

The manuscript once belonged to Charles de Montchal, Archbishop of Toulouse (1628–1651) and to Theller.[3] It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794–1852).[7] The manuscript was examined by Wettstein and Scholz.[3] It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.[8] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.[3]

Scrivener dated it to the 13th century.[9] Gregory, Soden, and Aland dated it to the 12th century. Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 12th century.[2]

It is cited in critical editions of the Greek New Testament.

The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 194) at Paris.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 58.
  2. ^ a b c d Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 65. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  3. ^ a b c d Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 177–178.
  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. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  5. ^ a b Minuscule 304 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism
  6. ^ NA26, p. 148.
  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. 225.
  8. ^ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs relatifs au Nouveau Testament, conservés dans les bibliothèques de Paris (Paris 1883), p. 79.
  9. ^ 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. 228.

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