New Testament manuscript
Minuscule 777 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε469 (von Soden ),[ 1] [ 2] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament written on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. The manuscript has complex contents.[ 3] [ 4]
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels , on 185 parchment leaves (size 21.5 cm by 15.5 cm).[ 3] The text is written in one column per page, 29 lines per page.[ 3]
It contains 24 pictures.[ 5]
It contains miniatures similar to those from minuscule 2427 .
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type . Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx .[ 6] Aland placed it in Category V .[ 7]
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represent the textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.[ 6]
It lacks texts of Matthew 16:2b–3 and Luke 22:43-44 .[ 5]
History
C. R. Gregory dated the manuscript to the 12th century.[ 5] The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 12th century.[ 4]
The manuscript was noticed in a catalogue from 1876.[ 8]
It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory (777). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.[ 5]
The manuscript is now housed at the National Library of Greece (93) in Athens .[ 3] [ 4]
See also
References
^ Hermann von Soden , Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 197.
^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament . Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 75.
^ a b c d Aland, Kurt ; 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 .
^ a b c Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
^ a b c d Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 221.
^ a b 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 .
^ 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 .
^ Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 219.
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