Minuscule 433 Explained

Minuscule 433 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 181 (in the Soden numbering),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. The manuscript has survived in a fragmentary condition. The text is a mixture of several different textual traditions. The manuscript was prepared for church reading. It has full marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 80 parchment leaves with large lacunae. The leaves of the codex are arranged into quarto (four leaves in quire). The text is written in one column per page, in 24 lines per page,^[2] in very small and beautiful letters.^[3]

The nomina sacra are written in an abbreviated way (θς for θεος, κς for κυριος, ις for ιησους, χς for χριστος, ανος for ανθρωπος, ιηλ for ισραηλ, σηρ for σωτηρ, ουνιος for ουρανιος, πνα for πνευμα, πηρ for πατηρ, μηρ for μητηρ, υς for υιος, ιω for ιωαννης, δαδ for δαυιδ), but not often.^[4] There are also other abbreviations used in the manuscript. The words at the end of the line sometimes are abbreviated. The error of itacism occurs, αι and ε, ε and η, η and υ, ει and ι, ι and η, ι and οι, ο and ω are confused frequently.^[4]

The text is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, with their Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, whose numbers are written at the margin with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).^[3]

The tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) are placed before each Gospel, lectionary markings are inserted at the margin (for the Church reading), and Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: αναγνωσεις (lessons).^[5]

The Greek text of the codex is mixed with many errors in very minute letters.^[5]

Contents Matthew 1:1-21; 6:12-32; 22:25-28:20; Mark 1:1-5:29; 9:21-18:12; Luke 7:27–John 9:21; 20:15-21:25.^[5]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a mixture of the text-types. According to G. G. Pappelbaum some of its textual variants are found in other manuscripts from the East, and some variants are typical for the Western manuscripts.^[6] It has also some rare readings, which are not supported by any textual family. Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.^[7] It was not examined according to the Claremont Profile Method.^[8]

In it reads Σολομωντα for Σολομωνα, as Minuscule 84.

It lacks the whole verse, as Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, Bezae, Regius, Dublinensis, Koridethi, f¹, 33, 892.^[9]

In it reads ακρασιας for αδικιας.^[10]

In it reads αστερες for αστεραις.^[11]

In it has singular reading τα δωδεκα for τα προβατα.^[12]

In it reads αποθανουνται for απολουνται.^[13]

In it reads οινον for οξος, as B, D, K, L, 1, 33, 69, 73,^[14] Sinaiticus, Koridethi.^[15]

In the whole verse was omitted by scribe (probably as error of homoioteleuton).^[16]

In Mark 1:9 it reads Ναζαρεθ for Ναζαρετ.^[17]

In Mark 1:16 it reads αμφιβαλλοντας for βαλλοντας.^[18]

In Mark 5:26 it reads παρα for υπο.

History

F. H. A. Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 11th or 12th century, C. R. Gregory to the 11th century. It is dated by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research to the 11th century.^[19]

The manuscript was brought from the East to Berlin by Wilhelm Ernst von Knobelsdorff in 1803, along with many other manuscripts (Persian and Arabic). In 1820 it was presented for the Prussian State Library.^[20] G. G. Pappelbaum described and collated its text in 1824.^[21] The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794–1852),^[22] who listed it under the number 239.^[5] C. R. Gregory saw it in 1887.^[3] Hermann von Soden designated it by siglum ε 181.^[23]

At the end of 1943 year has increased the frequency of the bombing of Berlin. The Prussian State Library sent many collections out of Berlin to be sheltered in Silesia for safekeeping. As the result of postwar border changes some of these collections were found in Poland (among minuscule 433). They were moved to the Jagiellonian University Library.^[24]

The manuscript used to be held in Berlin (MS Quart 12).^[3] It is now housed at the Biblioteka Jagiellońska (Fonds der Berliner Hss. Graec. qu. 12) in Kraków.^{[2] [19]}

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

Further reading

• Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . Hinrichs . 1900 . Leipzig . 1 . 189 .
• Georg Gottlieb Pappelbaum, Codicem manuscriptum N.T. graecum Evangeliorum quatuor partem dimidiam maiorem continentem in Bibliotheca regia Berolinensi publica asservatum (Berolini 1824).

External links

• Web site: Liste Handschriften. Institute for New Testament Textual Research. 21 March 2011. Münster.

Notes and References

1. Book: Gregory, Caspar René. Caspar René Gregory. Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. 1908. J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. Leipzig. 63.
2. Book: Aland , Kurt . Kurt Aland . M. Welte . B. Köster . K. Junack . Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments . . 1994 . Berlin, New York . 73 . 3-11-011986-2 .
3. Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . Hinrichs . 1900 . Leipzig . 1 . 189 .
4. Georg Gottlieb Pappelbaum, Codicem manuscriptum N. T. graecum Evangeliorum quatuor partem dimidiam maiorem continentem in Bibliotheca regia Berolinensi publica asservatum (Berolini 1824), p. 3.
5. Book: Scrivener , Frederick Henry Ambrose . Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener . . 1894 . London . 4 . 1 . 238 .
6. Georg Gottlieb Pappelbaum, Codicem manuscriptum N.T. graecum Evangeliorum quatuor partem dimidiam maiorem continentem in Bibliotheca regia Berolinensi publica asservatum (Berolini 1824), p. X.
7. 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 . 978-0-8028-4098-1.
8. 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 . 60 . 0-8028-1918-4 . registration .
9. Georg Gottlieb Pappelbaum, Codicem manuscriptum N.T. graecum Evangeliorum quatuor partem dimidiam maiorem continentem in Bibliotheca regia Berolinensi publica asservatum (Berolini 1824), p. 13.
10. Georg Gottlieb Pappelbaum, Codicem manuscriptum N.T. graecum Evangeliorum quatuor partem dimidiam maiorem continentem in Bibliotheca regia Berolinensi publica asservatum (Berolini 1824), p. 15.
11. Georg Gottlieb Pappelbaum, Codicem manuscriptum N.T. graecum Evangeliorum quatuor partem dimidiam maiorem continentem in Bibliotheca regia Berolinensi publica asservatum (Berolini 1824), p. 18.
12. Georg Gottlieb Pappelbaum, Codicem manuscriptum N.T. graecum Evangeliorum quatuor partem dimidiam maiorem continentem in Bibliotheca regia Berolinensi publica asservatum (Berolini 1824), p. 24.
13. Georg Gottlieb Pappelbaum, Codicem manuscriptum N.T. graecum Evangeliorum quatuor partem dimidiam maiorem continentem in Bibliotheca regia Berolinensi publica asservatum (Berolini 1824), p. 25.
14. Georg Gottlieb Pappelbaum, Codicem manuscriptum N.T. graecum Evangeliorum quatuor partem dimidiam maiorem continentem in Bibliotheca regia Berolinensi publica asservatum (Berolini 1824), p. 28.
15. NA26, 83.
16. Georg Gottlieb Pappelbaum, Codicem manuscriptum N.T. graecum Evangeliorum quatuor partem dimidiam maiorem continentem in Bibliotheca regia Berolinensi publica asservatum (Berolini 1824), p. 30.
17. Georg Gottlieb Pappelbaum, Codicem manuscriptum N.T. graecum Evangeliorum quatuor partem dimidiam maiorem continentem in Bibliotheca regia Berolinensi publica asservatum (Berolini 1824), p. 32.
18. Georg Gottlieb Pappelbaum, Codicem manuscriptum N.T. graecum Evangeliorum quatuor partem dimidiam maiorem continentem in Bibliotheca regia Berolinensi publica asservatum (Berolini 1824), p. 33.
19. Web site: Liste Handschriften. Institute for New Testament Textual Research. 21 March 2011. Münster.
20. Georg Gottlieb Pappelbaum, Codicem manuscriptum N.T. graecum Evangeliorum quatuor partem dimidiam maiorem continentem in Bibliotheca regia Berolinensi publica asservatum (Berolini 1824), pp. III-IV.
21. Georg Gottlieb Pappelbaum, Codicem manuscriptum N.T. graecum Evangeliorum quatuor partem dimidiam maiorem continentem in Bibliotheca regia Berolinensi publica asservatum (Berolini 1824).
22. Book: Scrivener , Frederick Henry Ambrose . Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener . Edward Miller . . . 1894 . London . 4 . 225 .
23. Book: Soden, von, Hermann. Hermann, Freiherr von Soden. Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte. 1. 1902. Verlag von Alexander Duncker. Berlin. 145.
24. Sroka Marek, The Music Collection of the Former Prussian State Library at the Jagiellonian Library in Kraków, Poland: Past, Present, and Future Developments, Library Trends - Volume 55, Number 3, Winter 2007, pp. 651-664