Minuscule 347

Minuscule 347

New Testament manuscript
Text	Gospels
Date	12th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Cite	Scholz, Biblisch-kritische Reise (1823)
Size	23.1 cm by 16.5 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	correctly written

Minuscule 347 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 226 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.^[2] It has full marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 245 parchment leaves (23.1 cm by 16.5 cm) with only one lacuna (Matthew 1:1-10). The text is written in one column per page, in 25 lines per page.^[2]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 233 Sections - 16:8), with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).^[3]

It contains Prolegomena, Epistula ad Carpianum, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, and lectionary markings at the end of each Gospel (for liturgical use).^[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K^x.^[4] Aland placed it in Category V.^[5]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family K^x in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.^[4]

The text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is placed after John 21:25.^[3]

History

The manuscript was written by Constantin Chrysographus. It was examined by Scholz^[6] and Burgon. It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).^[7] C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.^[3]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (R. 35 sup.) in Milan.^[2]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

1. Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 60.
2. Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 67. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
3. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 181.
4. 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.
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. J. M. A. Scholz, Biblisch-kritische Reise (Leipzig, 1823), p. 70-73.
7. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1861). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 225.

Further reading

• J. M. A. Scholz, Biblisch-kritische Reise (Leipzig, 1823), p. 70-73.