Minuscule 888
New Testament manuscript
NameVenetus Graecus Z. 26 (340)
TextGospels
Date14th century
ScriptGreek
Now atBiblioteca Marciana
Size37.5 cm by 26.5 cm
TypeByzantine
Categorynone
Notemarginalia

Minuscule 888 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θε430 (von Soden),[1][2] is a 14th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on paper, with a commentary. The codex has an unusual order of the Gospels. The manuscript was prepared for liturgical use.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, with a commentary, on 307 paper leaves (size 37.5 cm by 26.5 cm).[3] The text is written in one column per page, 47 lines per page.[3][4] The Gospels follow in an unusual order: Matthew, John, Mark and Luke (as 594).[5]

The text of the Gospels is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages.[5] It contains Prolegomena, tables of κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.[5]

Folios 1-63 contain a commentary to the Prophets by Theophylact of Ohrid.[5] It contains some additional non-biblical matter at the end.[5]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is unknown. Kurt Aland did not place it in any Category.[6] It was not examined according to the Claremont Profile Method.[7]

History

According to C. R. Gregory it was written in the 14th or 15th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 14th century.[4] The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (888e)[8] and Gregory (888e).[5][2] Gregory saw it in 1886.[5]

It is not cited in critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS4,[9] NA28[10]). Currently the manuscript is housed at the Biblioteca Marciana (Gr. Z. 26 (340)), in Venice.[3][4]

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References

  1. ^ Soden, von, 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. 269.
  2. ^ a b Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 78.
  3. ^ 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. 99. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  4. ^ a b c "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 230.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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. 67. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
  8. ^ 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. 275.
  9. ^ Aland, B.; Aland, K.; J. Karavidopoulos, C. M. Martini, B. Metzger, A. Wikgren (1993). The Greek New Testament (4 ed.). Stuttgart: United Bible Societies. p. 18*. ISBN 978-3-438-05110-3.((cite book)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ Nestle, Eberhard et Erwin (2001). Novum Testamentum Graece. communiter ediderunt: B. et K. Aland, J. Karavidopoulos, C. M. Martini, B. M. Metzger (27 ed.). Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft. p. 812. ISBN 978-3-438-05100-4.

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