Minuscule 364
New Testament manuscript
TextGospels
Date10th century
ScriptGreek
Now atLaurentian Library
Size13.7 cm by 10 cm
TypeByzantine text-type
CategoryV
Notemarginalia

Minuscule 364 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1011 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 10th century.[2] It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 284 parchment leaves (13.7 cm by 10 cm) with catena. It is written in one column per page, in 20 lines per page.[2] The style of characters rather peculiar, without the usual breaks between the Gospels.[3] The style of the characters resembles Slavonic.[4]

The original text of the manuscript was not divided. It was divided by a later hand according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles of chapters). There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons (only in Matthew). This division also was added by later hand.[4][3]

It contains Synaxarion and Menologion were added in the 15th century. Text of Matthew 1:1-13 was added in the 15th century.[4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx.[4] Aland placed it in Category V.[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Kx in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20, and belongs to the textual cluster Ω.[6]

In John 8:8 the codex has unique textual addition: ενος εκαστου αυτων τας αμαρτιας (sins of every one of them).[4] This textual variant have Codex Nanianus, 73, 331, 413, 658, 700, 782, 1592 and some Armenian manuscripts. 652 has this variant on the margin added by a later hand. Minuscule 264 has this textual variant in John 8:6.

History

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794–1852).[7] It was examined by Burgon. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.[4]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Biblioteca Laurentiana (Plutei VI. 24) in Florence.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 61.
  2. ^ a b c Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 68. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  3. ^ a b 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. 233.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 183.
  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. 138. 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. 59. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
  7. ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1861). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. London. p. 168.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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