Minuscule 892 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1016 (Soden). It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on 353 parchment leaves (23.5 cm by 11.5 cm). It is dated palaeografically to the 9th century.^[1]

Description

The codex contains almost complete text of the four Gospels with some lacunae. The texts of John 10:6-12:18 and 14:23-end were inserted by later hand (on paper, about the 16th century).^[2] The text is written in one column per page, in 20 lines per page, in minuscule letters.^[1]

It includes the text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) (the first important Greek-only manuscript to have the pericope), Matthew 16:2b–3, Luke 22:43–44, 23:34, and of course Mark 16:9-20. All these texts were questioned by early Alexandrian manuscripts. In this manuscript, interpolation of the Alexandrian text-type in Matthew 27:49.^[3]

Words in this codex are written continuously without separation. Hermann von Soden observed that the manuscript preserved the division in pages and lines of its uncial parent.^[4] The Ammonian sections and the Eusebian Canons were given in the left-hand margin.

Synaxarion and Menologion were added in the 13th century. John 10:6-12:18; 14:24-21:25 was added by a later hand in the 16th century.^[2]

Text

The Greek text of the codex, is a representative of the late Alexandrian text-type, with some the Byzantine readings. It is one of the most important of all minuscule manuscripts. It contains many remarkable readings of an early type.^[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the Alexandrian text-type as a core member.^[6]

It is probably the best surviving minuscule witness to the Gospels. Aland placed it in Category II.^[7]

Matthew 19:16

διδασκαλε (teacher) — א, B, D, L, f¹, 892^txt, 1010, 1365, ℓ 5, it^{a, d, e, ff1}, cop^bo, eth, geo, Origen, Hilary;

διδασκαλε αγαθε (good teacher) — C, K, W, Δ, Θ, f¹³, 28, 33, 565, 700, 892^mg, 1009, 1071, 1079, 1195, 1216, 1230, 1241, 1242, 1253, 1344, 1546, 1646, 2148, 2174, Byz, Lect, it, vg, syr, cop^sa, arm, eth, Diatessaron.^[8]

In Mark 6:33 it has textual reading ἐκεῖ καὶ προῆλθον αὐτούς along with Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Vaticanus, 0187 (omit εκει), ℓ 49, ℓ 69, ℓ 70, ℓ 299, ℓ 303, ℓ 333, ℓ 1579, (ℓ 950 αυτους), it^aur, vg, (cop^{sa, bo}).^[9]

In Mark 10:7 phrase και προσκολληθησεται προς την γυναικα αυτου (and be joined to his wife) is omitted, as in codices Codex Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, Codex Athous Lavrensis, ℓ 48, syr^s, goth.^[10]

In Luke 4:17 it has textual variant καὶ ἀνοίξας τὸ βιβλίον (and opened the book) together with the manuscripts A, B, L, W, Ξ, 33, 1195, 1241, ℓ 547, syr^{s, h, pal}, cop^{sa, bo}, against variant καὶ ἀναπτύξας τὸ βιβλίον (and unrolled the book) supported by א, D^c, K, Δ, Θ, Π, Ψ, f¹, f¹³, 28, 565, 700, 1009, 1010 and many other manuscripts.^[11][12]

In John 1:28 it has textual variant Βηθαραβα together with the Codex Sinaiticus (second corrector), syr^h and several other manuscripts.^[13]

In John 6:1 it reads της θαλασσης της Γαλιλαιας εις τα μερη της Τιβεριαδος – along with Codex Bezae, Θ, 1009, 1230, 1253.^[14]

History

The codex was acquired by the British Museum in 1887 from H. L. Dupuis.^[15] Now it is located in the British Library (Add. 33277) in London.^[1]

It was examined by J. Rendel Harris.