Minuscule 781

Minuscule 781

New Testament manuscript
Text	Gospels †
Date	14th century
Script	Greek
Now at	National Library of Greece
Size	22.5 cm by 15.5 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	–

Minuscule 781 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε354 (von Soden),^[1][2] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament written on paper. 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 199 paper leaves (size 22.5 cm by 15.5 cm), with some lacunae.^[3] The text is written in one column per page, 24 lines per page.^[3]

A later hand divided the text according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, but without their τιτλοι (titles) at the top.^[5]

It contains tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel with a harmony, Argumentum, lectionary markings at the margin, incipits, αναγνωσεις, liturgical books (Synaxarion and Menologion), subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, and 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 10 it has mixed Byzantine text. It is perfect member of the family.^[6]

The text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is marked by an obelus.^[5]

History

C. R. Gregory dated the manuscript to 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 14.^[5]

The manuscript was noticed in a catalogue from 1876.^[8]

It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory (781). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.^[5]

The manuscript is now housed at the National Library of Greece (110) in Athens.^[3][4]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism
• Minuscule 780

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. 177.
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: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 221.
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. 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. 221.