Minuscule 745 Explained

Minuscule 745 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε605 (von Soden),^{[1] [2]} is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament written on paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 16th century. The manuscript has complex contents.^{[3] [4]} Scrivener labelled it as 633^e.^[5]

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 212 paper leaves (size). The text is written in one column per page, 22 lines per page.

The text is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 234 Sections, the last section in 16:9), but there are no references to the Eusebian Canons.^[6]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[7]

It was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method.^[8]

History

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 16th or 17th century, Martin to the 17th century; Gregory dated it to the 16th century. The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 16th century.

According to Scrivener it is "a Western codex".^[5] According to Gregory it could be rewritten from the minuscule 732.

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (633) and Gregory (745). It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.^[9] Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.

The manuscript is now housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 227) in Paris.

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism
• Minuscule 744

Further reading

• Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . J.C. Hinrichs . 1900 . Leipzig . 1 . 218 .
• Book: William Hatch . William Hatch (theologian) . Facsimiles and descriptions of minuscule manuscripts of the New Testament . Cambridge . 1951 . XCIX.

Notes and References

1. [Hermann von Soden]
2. Book: Gregory, Caspar René. Caspar René Gregory. Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. 1908. J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. Leipzig. 74.
3. Book: Aland , K. . Kurt Aland . M. Welte . B. Köster . K. Junack . Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments . . 1994 . Berlin, New York . 91 . 3-11-011986-2 .
4. http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php Handschriftenliste
5. Book: Scrivener , Frederick Henry Ambrose . Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener . Edward Miller . . . 1894 . 4 . London . 1 . 264 .
6. Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . J.C. Hinrichs . 1900 . Leipzig . 1 . 218 .
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 . 133, 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 . 65 . 0-8028-1918-4 . registration .
9. [Paulin Martin|Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin]