Minuscule 374 Explained

Minuscule 374 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A204 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.[2] The manuscript has complex contents. It has some marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 173 parchment leaves with a commentary. The text is written in one column per page, in 45 lines per page.[2]

The commentary to the Gospel of Mark is of the authorship of Victorinus, commentaries to the rest of the Gospels are of the authorship of Peter of Laodicea. It contains the Eusebian tables and pictures.[3] Lists of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, numbers of the (chapters), and the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: τιτλοι (titles) were added by a later hand.[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[4] According to the Claremont Profile Method it has mixed Byzantine text in Luke 1. In Luke 10 and Luke 20 no profile was made.[5]

History

The manuscript in 1215 belonged to one John from Theodosiopolis (in Asia Minor).[3] The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).[6] It was examined by Dean Burgon. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.[3]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Vat. gr. 1445) in Rome.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Gregory, Caspar René. Caspar René Gregory. Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. 1908. J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. Leipzig. 61.
  2. Book: Aland , K. . Kurt Aland . M. Welte . B. Köster . K. Junack . Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments . . 1994 . Berlin, New York . 69 . 3-11-011986-2 .
  3. Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . Hinrichs . 1900 . Leipzig . 1 . 184 .
  4. Book: Aland , Kurt . 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 . limited . 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  5. 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 . 59 . 0-8028-1918-4 . registration .
  6. Book: Scrivener , Frederick Henry Ambrose . Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener . Edward Miller . . . 1894 . London . 4 . 1 . 225 .