Minuscule 668
Minuscule 668 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1205 (von Soden),[1][2] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th or 14th century. The manuscript has complex contents.[3][4] Scrivener labelled it by 1144e.[5]
| New Testament manuscript | |
| Text | Gospels |
|---|---|
| Date | 13th/14th century |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | Syracuse University |
| Size | 20 cm by 16 cm |
| Type | Byzantine text-type |
| Category | V |
Description
The codex contains the entire of the four Gospels, on 201 parchment leaves (size 20 cm by 16 cm).[3] The text is written in one column per page, 25-28 lines per page.[3][6]
The heading for the Gospel of Mark is titled εκ του κατά Μάρκου.[6][n 1]
The lists of the κεφαλαια are placed before every book, the text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), with τιτλοι (titles). The Ammonian Sections are given (in Mark 234 Sections - last numbered section in 16:9), with references to the Eusebian Canons.[6]
It contains lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), Synaxarion, Menologion, and pictures.[6]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.[7]
According to C. R. Gregory it has good readings.[6]
According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family Kx in Luke 1; 10; 20.[8]
History
Gregory dated it to the 12th century.[6] Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 13th or 14th century.[4]
The manuscript was bought by Albert L. Long in Constantinople (see Minuscule 667).[1][6]
Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885 in Paris.[6] The manuscript was collated by H. H. Severn in 1928 in his unpublished Ph.D. thesis.[9]
Currently the manuscript is housed at the Syracuse University (Ms. 226.048G), in Syracuse, New York.[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. 161.
- 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. 279.
- Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 211.
- 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.
- J. K. Elliott, A bibliography of Greek New Testament Manuscripts (New York 1989), p. 117
Further reading
- I. H. Hall, On a Cursive Ms. of the Greek Gospels, Proceedings of the American Oriental Society (New Haven, 1884), pp. III-IV; and (1885), pp. CCV-CCVI.
- K. W. Clark, A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America (Chicago, 1937), pp. 216–217