Minuscule 884 Explained

Minuscule 884 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A¹²⁶ (von Soden),^{[1] [2]} is an 11th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment. The manuscript has not survived in complete condition.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Luke and Gospel of John, with a commentary, on 256 parchment leaves (size), with lacuna in Luke 1:1-3:1. The text is written in one column per page, 30 lines per page.^{[3] [4]} The commentary is of Theophylact of Ohrid.^{[5] [6]} It was altered by a later hand (biblical text and a commentary).

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family I^β. It means, it has some textual affinities to 1216 and minuscule 16.^[7] Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.^[8]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family K^x in Luke 10. In Luke 20 it belongs to the textual family of Lake's group, as a weak member. In Luke 1 no profile was made, because the manuscript is defective.^[9]

History

According to F. H. A. Scrivener it was written in the 13th century, according to C. R. Gregory in the 11th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 11th century.^[4]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (696^e),^[6] Gregory (884^e). Gregory saw it in 1886.

It was described by Henry Stevenson.^[10]

Currently the manuscript is housed at the Vatican Library (Reg. gr. 3), in Rome.

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules (1–1000)
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism
• Minuscule 883

Further reading

• Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . J.C. Hinrichs . 1900 . Leipzig . 1 . 229 .
• Henry Stevenson, Codices manuscripti Graeci Reginae Svecorum et Pii Pp. II. Bibliothecae Vaticanae, descripti praeside I.B. Cardinali Pitra, Rom 1888.

External links

• Web site: Liste Handschriften. Institute for New Testament Textual Research. 5 September 2012. Münster.
• Digitised manuscript at the INTF

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. 251.
2. Book: Gregory, Caspar René. Caspar René Gregory. Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. 1908. J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. Leipzig. 78.
3. Book: Aland , Kurt . Kurt Aland . M. Welte . B. Köster . K. Junack . Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments . . 1994 . Berlin, New York . 99 . 3-11-011986-2 .
4. Web site: Liste Handschriften . Institute for New Testament Textual Research . 5 September 2012 . Münster.
5. Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . Hinrichs . 1900 . Leipzig . 1 . 229 .
6. Book: Scrivener , Frederick Henry Ambrose . Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener . Edward Miller . . . 1894 . London . 4 . 1 . 267 .
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 . 50 . 0-8028-1918-4 .
8. 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.
9. 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 .
10. Henry Stevenson described also minuscule manuscripts: 154, 885, 886, 887.