Minuscule 789

Minuscule 789

New Testament manuscript
Text	Gospels †
Date	14th century
Script	Greek
Now at	National Library of Greece
Size	23 cm by 17.5 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	–

Minuscule 789 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε396 (von Soden),^[1][2] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament written on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century. The manuscript has no complex contents.^[3][4]

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 250 parchment leaves (size 23 cm by 17.5 cm), with some lacunae.^[3] The texts of Matthew 1:1-5:40; John 19:12-21:25 were supplied by a later hand in the 16th century.^[5]

The text is written in one column per page, 20 lines per page.^[3]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, but there is no their τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages.^[5]

It contains tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel with a Harmony, lectionary markings at the margin, incipits, αναγνωσεις (lessons), (Synaxarion, Menologion from 16th century), subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, with numbers of στιχοι.^[5]

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 the Claremont Profile Method it represent the textual family K^r in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 20 no profile was made.^[6]

The text of the Pericope Adulterae is athetized by scribe in margin with horizontal dashes (folio 218b–219a).^[8]

History

According to Gregory the manuscript was written in the 14th century.^[5] The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 14th century.^[4]

Formerly it was housed in the monastery μεγαλων πυλων 27.^[5] The manuscript was noticed in catalogue from 1876.^[9]

It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory (789). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.^[5]

The manuscript is now housed at the National Library of Greece (134) in Athens.^[3][4]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism
• Minuscule 788

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. 181.
2. Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 75.
3. Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 93. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
4. Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
5. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 222.
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. 66. 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. pp. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
8. "Manuscript GA 789 - CSNTM". manuscripts.csntm.org. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
9. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 219.

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 222.