Minuscule 772

Minuscule 772

New Testament manuscript
Text	Gospels †
Date	14th century
Script	Greek
Now at	National Library of Greece
Size	24 cm by 19.5 cm
Type	?
Category	none
Note	commentary

Minuscule 772 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θ^ε418 (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] Scrivener labelled it as 867^e.^[5]

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 387 parchment leaves (size 24 cm by 19.5 cm), with some lacunae.^[3] The texts of Matthew 1:1-6:18 and John 21:24.25 were supplied by a later hand from the 16th century on paper.^[6] The text is written in one column per page, 28-31 lines per page.^[3]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, with their τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages.^[6]

Lectionary markings were added by a later hand. It contains a commentary of Theophylact.^[6]

Text

Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.^[7] It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.^[8]

The lacks the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11).^[6]

History

F. H. A. Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 15th century;^[5] Gregory dated the manuscript to the 12th century.^[6] The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 14th century.^[4]

The manuscript was noticed in a catalogue from 1876.^[9]

It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (867)^[5] and Gregory (772). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.^[6]

The manuscript is now housed at the National Library of Greece (489) in Athens.^[3][4]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism
• Minuscule 771

References

1. Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 253.
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 YorkΘ: Walter de Gruyter. p. 93. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
4. Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
5. 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.
6. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 220.
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. 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. 65. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
9. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 219.

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 220.