Minuscule 667
Minuscule 667 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1185 (von Soden),[1][2] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th or 12th century. The manuscript has complex contents.[3][4] Scrivener labelled it by 900e.[5]
| New Testament manuscript | |
| Text | Gospels |
|---|---|
| Date | 11th/12th century |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | Drew University |
| Size | 10.3 cm by 9.1 cm |
| Type | Byzantine text-type |
| Category | none |
Description
The codex contains the entire of the four Gospels, on 178 parchment leaves (size 10.3 cm by 9.1 cm).[3] The text is written in one column per page, 25-28 lines per page,[3] in very small letters.[6] The lists of the κεφαλαια are placed before every book, the text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin and their τιτλοι (titles) at the top.[6]
The leaves 163 and 170 were supplemented in the 16th century.[1][6]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Kurt Aland did not placed it in any Category.[7]
According to the Wisse's Profile Method it belongs to the textual family Kx in Luke 1; 10; 20. It is close to the Codex Athous Dionysiou.[8]
History
Gregory dated it to the 11th or 12th century.[6] Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 11th or 12th century.[4]
The manuscript was bought by Albert L. Long in Constantinople (see Minuscule 668).[1][6]
Gregory saw the manuscript in 1895.[6]
Currently the manuscript is housed at the Drew University (Ms. 11), in Madison, New Jersey.[3][4]
References
- Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 152.
- Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 71.
- Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 86. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
- Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
- 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. 276.
- Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 210.
- 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.
- 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. 64. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
Further reading
- Everett A. Overton, The 'Drew' Gospel Manuscripts, Drew University 1933, 687-700
- K. W. Clark (1937). A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America. Chicago: A University of Chicago Press. pp. 38–39.