Minuscule 588

Minuscule 588

New Testament manuscript
Text	Gospels †
Date	1321
Script	Greek
Now at	Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Size	21.5 cm by 15 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V

Minuscule 588 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 229 (von Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1321.^[2] The manuscript is lacunose. It was labelled by Scrivener as 457.^[3]

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 221 parchment leaves (size 21.5 cm by 15 cm) with some lacunae (Matthew 10:27-13:19; 27:49-28:20; Luke 24:5-53 John 1:1-8; 4:51-7:3).^[4] The text is written in one column per page, 21 lines per page.^[2]

It contains the Eusebian Canon tables, prolegomena, lists of the κεφαλαια before each of the Gospela, numerals of the κεφαλαια (chapters) at the margin, the τιτλοι (titles), Ammonian Sections (Mark 241 – 16:20), the Eusebian Canons, lectionary markings, incipits, lists of αναγνωσεις, subscriptions, and pictures.^[5] The part of John 5 is much earlier than the rest of the manuscript.^[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^r.^[6] Aland placed it in Category V.^[7] According to Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family K^r in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.^[6]

History

There is a note on folio 212 verso: ετελειωθη το παρον αγ[ιον] αυα[γγελιον] δια χειρος εμου του ευτελους ιω[α]ν[νου] ιερεως του περδικαρη και δια εξοδους κυρου γερμανου μοναχου επιερους ς ω κθ ινδ δ’ μη[νι] μαιω εις τας ις ημερα σα[ββα]τω.^[8]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener. It was examined by Dean Burgon.

The manuscript currently is housed at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (E. 63 sup.), at 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. 68.
2. K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 81.
3. 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. 243.
4. Catalogus graecorum Bibliothecace Ambrosianae (Mediolani 1906), vol. I, pp. 318-319.
5. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 205.
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. 63. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
7. 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.
8. Catalogus graecorum Bibliothecace Ambrosianae (Mediolani 1906), vol. I, p. 319.

Further reading

• A. Turyn, Dated Greek Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in the Libraries of Italy, (Urbana, 1972), 118; description pp. 141–142.
• Catalogus graecorum Bibliothecace Ambrosianae (Mediolani 1906), vol. I, pp. 318–319.