Minuscule 836 Explained

Minuscule 836 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θ^ε46 (von Soden),^{[1] [2]} is a 14th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on paper. The manuscript is not complete, it lacks Gospel of Luke.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Matthew, Gospel of Mark, and Gospel of John on 277 paper leaves (size). The text is written in one column per page, 33 lines per page.^{[3] [4]} The headpieces are in red.

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 of the pages. It has some notes at the margin.

It contains a commentary of Theophylact.^[5]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.^[6]

It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.^[7]

Textual variants

• Matthew 1:3b-4a δε εγεννησε τον Αραμ. Αραμ δε εγεννησε τον Αμιναδαβ, Αμιναδαβ δε εγεννησε ] omit
• Matthew 1:24 – διεγερθεις δε ο Ιωσεφ απο ] διεγερθεις δε α απο

History

C. R. Gregory dated the manuscript to the 14th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 14th century. The manuscript once belonged to the Convent of S. Marco de Florentia des Predigerordens as minuscule 196.

The manuscript was examined and described by Angelo Maria Bandini.^[8] It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory (836^e). Gregory saw it in 1886. It was digitized in 2009.

Currently the manuscript is housed at the Laurentian Library (Plutei XI. 18), in Florence.

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Minuscule 835
• Minuscule 837
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

Further reading

• Angelo Bandini, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum graecorum, latinorum, italicorum etc, Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (Florence 1767-1778), p. 513.
• Pierre Petitmengin – Laetitia Ciccolini, Jean Matal et la bibliothèque de Saint Marc de Florence (1545), "Italia medioevale e umanistica", 46, 2005, pp. 207–238.

External links

• Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana Catalogo Aperto
• Images at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

Notes and References

1. 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. 266.
2. Book: Gregory, Caspar René. Caspar René Gregory. Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. 1908. J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. Leipzig. 76.
3. Book: Aland , Kurt . Kurt Aland . M. Welte . B. Köster . K. Junack . Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments . . 1994 . Berlin, New York . 96 . 3-11-011986-2 .
4. Web site: Liste Handschriften . Institute for New Testament Textual Research . 23 January 2011. Münster.
5. Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . J.C. Hinrichs . 1900 . Leipzig . 1 . 226 .
6. 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.
7. 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 . 67 . 0-8028-1918-4 . registration .
8. Angelo Bandini, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum graecorum, latinorum, italicorum etc, Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (Florence 1767-1778), p. 513.