Minuscule 1813 Explained

Minuscule 1813, designated by number 1813 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 3047 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on 235 parchment leaves (22.5 by 14.9 cm). Paleografically it had been assigned to the 11th century (or 12th).^[1]

Description

It contains a complete text of the four Gospels. It is written in a roundish cursive hand. The writing is in one column per page, in 26-27 lines per page.^[1] It contains Synaxarion and Menologion.

Text

Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.^[2] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family K^r in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It creates a pair with 966.^[3]

History

The name of scribe was Hierotheos.^[4] Formerly it was kept in the monastery in Soumela (Ms. 82), in Trebizond. Purchased on 1961 for $ 2 380.

Currently the codex is located in the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of the Duke University (Gk MS 25) at Durham.^[1]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules (1001-2000)
• Biblical manuscripts
• Textual criticism

Further reading

• Kurt Treu, Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der USSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan, T & U 91 (Berlin: 1966), p. 325.
• Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des Neues Testament in ihrer altesten erreichbaren Textgestalt (Berlin, 1907), p. 191.

External links

• Minuscule 1813 at the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts

Notes and References

1. K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 149.
2. Book: Aland , Kurt . Kurt Aland

   . Kurt Aland . Aland . Barbara . Barbara Aland . Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) . The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism . . 1995 . Grand Rapids . 139 . 978-0-8028-4098-1.

3. Book: Wisse , Frederik . The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke . . 1982 . Grand Rapids . 83 . 0-8028-1918-4 . registration .
4. C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes III (Leipzig: 1909), p. 1182.