Minuscule 826
New Testament manuscript
TextGospels
Date12th century
ScriptGreek
Now atBiblioteca della Badia
Size22.8 cm by 17.5 cm
TypeCaesarean text-type
CategoryIII
Notebeautiful

Minuscule 826 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), ε218 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts),[1][2] is a Greek minuscule manuscript containing the New Testament Gospels written on parchment. Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it has been assigned to the 12th century.[3][4] It contains marginal notes (known as marginalia).

Description

The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book), containing the text of the four Gospels, on 233 parchment leaves (sized 22.8 cm by 17.5 cm).[5] The text is written in two columns per page, 25–26 lines per page.[5][4]

The text is divided according to the chapters (known as κεφαλαια / kephalaia), and according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 234 sections, the last numbered section in 16:9). The numerals of the κεφαλαια are given at the margin, and their titles (known as τιτλοι / titloi) at the top of the pages. The Ammonian Sections are given with a references to the Eusebian Canons (written under Ammonian Sections).[3]

It contains the Eusebian Canon tables at the beginning, tables of contents (also known as κεφαλαια) before each Gospel, lectionary markings for liturgical use, incipits, liturgical books: Synaxarion and Menologion, subscriptions at the end each of the Gospels with the numbers of lines (known as στιχοι / stichoi).[3][6]

According to biblical scholar and textual critic Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener, it is a beautiful codex.[6]

Text

The Greek text of the codex has been considered as a representative of the Caesarean text-type. The text-types are groups of different New Testament manuscripts which share specific or generally related readings, which then differ from each other group, and thus the conflicting readings can separate out the groups. These are then used to determine the original text as published; there are three main groups with names: Alexandrian, Western, and Byzantine.[7] The Caesarean text-type however (initially identified by biblical scholar Burnett Hillman Streeter) has been contested by several text-critics, such as Kurt and Barbara Aland.[8]: 55–56  Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Iιc.[9]

According to Kurt and Barbara Aland, in a number of test-passages it supports the Byzantine text against the "original" 157 times, original against the Byzantine 27 times, and 77 times it agrees with both. It also has 60 independent or distinctive readings. Kurt Aland placed it in Category III of his New Testament manuscript classification system.[8] Category III manuscripts are described as having "a small but not a negligible proportion of early readings, with a considerable encroachment of [Byzantine] readings, and significant readings from other sources as yet unidentified."[8]: 335 

According to the Claremont Profile Method (a specific analysis of textual data), it represents textual family ƒ13 (the Ferrar Family) in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20, as a perfect member of the family.[9]

In its main text it lacks the passage of Matthew 16:2b–3, however this was added by a later hand in the margin. It lacks the text of the Christ's agony at Gethsemane (Luke 22:43–44). The text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53–8:11) is relocated and placed after Luke 21:38, as seen in other members of ƒ13.[3]

History

The manuscript was examined and described by scholar Antonio Rocci in 1882.[10] William Henry Simcox collated a major part of Luke as per Gregory's request. It was examined by biblical scholars Kirsopp Lake and Jacob Geerlings. According to Geerlings it is the archetype of family 13 (the Ferrar Family).[11] The manuscript was written in Calabria,[3] in Rhegium.[6]

Biblical scholar Caspar René Gregory dated the manuscript to the 12th century,[3] whereas other palaeographers dated it to the 11th century.[6] The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 12th century.[4]

It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (as 624)[6] and Gregory (as 826e). Gregory saw it in 1886.[3]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Biblioteca della Badia (A' α. 3), in Grottaferrata.[5][4]

See also

References

  1. ^ von Soden, Hermann (1902). Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte. Vol. 1. Berlin: Verlag von Alexander Duncker. p. 154.
  2. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs. p. 76.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 225.
  4. ^ a b c d "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 13 October 2023.
  5. ^ 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. 95. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  6. ^ a b c d e 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. 263.
  7. ^ Metzger, Bruce Manning; Ehrman, Bart D. (2005). The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration (4th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 205–230. ISBN 0-19-516667-1.
  8. ^ a b c 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. 133. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  9. ^ a b 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. 66. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
  10. ^ Rocci, Antonio (1883). Codices cryptenses, seu Abbatiae Cryptae Ferratae in Tusculano digesti et illustrati. Tusculum: Typis abbatiae Cryptae Ferratae.
  11. ^ Geerlings, Jacob (1948). "Is Ms. 826 the archetype of Fam. 13a?". Journal of Biblical Literature. 67: 357–363.

Further reading

External links

Images of Minuscule 826 (microfilm) at the CSNTM.

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