Minuscule 854

Minuscule 854 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θε39 (von Soden),[1][2] is a 13th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on paper. The manuscript has complex content.

Minuscule 854
New Testament manuscript
TextGospels
Date1286
ScriptGreek
Now atVatican Library
Size25.4 cm by 16.8 cm
TypeByzantine / mixed
Categorynone
Notecommentary

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 467 paper leaves (size 25.4 cm by 16.8 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 28 lines per page.[3][4]

It contains a commentary of Theophylact's authorship.[5][6]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type with a mixture of other text-types. Kurt Aland did not place it in any Category.[7]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual cluster 2148 in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 it represents textual family Kx.[8]

History

According to the colophon the manuscript was written in 1286.[3]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by F. H. A. Scrivener (666e)[6] and C. R. Gregory (854e). Gregory saw it in 1886.[5]

Currently the manuscript is housed at the Vatican Library (Gr. 641), in Rome.[3][4]

See also
Similar manuscripts

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. 264.
  2. Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 77.
  3. Aland, Kurt; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 97. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  4. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 10 March 2011.
  5. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 227.
  6. 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. 266.
  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. 134, 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. 67. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.

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