Minuscule 886 Explained

Minuscule 886 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering),^[1] is a 15th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on paper, with a commentary. The manuscript has not survived in complete condition.

Description

The codex contains the text of the New Testament (except Catholic epistles), with a commentary, on 336 paper leaves (size). The text is written in one column per page, 59 lines per page.^{[2] [3]}

The commentary is of authorship of Nicetas of Naupactus in the Gospels, of Theophylact in the Acts of the Apostles and Pauline epistles. The Apocalypse has a commentary of an anonymous writer.^{[4] [5]}

It contains the Eusebian Canon tables (before four Gospels), Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια lists before each biblical book.

Text

Kurt and Barbara Aland gave the textual profile 209¹, 99², 2^1/2, 14^s in the Gospels, 15¹, 3², 3^1/2, 4^s in the Acts, and 171¹, 43², 9^1/2, 23^s in the Pauline epistles. On the basis of this profile Alands placed it in Category V.^[6] It means it is a representative of the Byzantine text-type.^[7]

It was not examined according to the Claremont Profile Method.^[8]

History

The manuscript is dated by a colophon to the year 1454. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 15th century.^[3]

It once belonged to Ignatius, metropolitan, then to Demetrius Leontari, then to Christian Baue in Berlin. The manuscript was described by Henry Stevenson.^[9] Gregory saw it in 1886. The text of the Apocalypse was collated by Herman C. Hoskier.^[10]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (698^e),^[5] Gregory (886^e).

The manuscript was digitized by the INTF.

Currently the manuscript is housed at the Vatican Library (Reg. gr. 6), in Rome.

See also

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

Further reading

• Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . J.C. Hinrichs . 1900 . Leipzig . 1 . 229–230 .
• Henry Stevenson, Codices manuscripti Graeci Reginae Svecorum et Pii Pp. II. Bibliothecae Vaticanae, descripti praeside I.B. Cardinali Pitra, Rom 1888, pp. 4–6.

External links

• Web site: Liste Handschriften. Institute for New Testament Textual Research. 21 February 2013. 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. 78.
2. 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 .
3. Web site: Liste Handschriften . Institute for New Testament Textual Research . 21 February 2012 . Münster.
4. Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . Hinrichs . 1900 . Leipzig . 1 . 229–230 .
5. Book: Scrivener , Frederick Henry Ambrose . Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener . Edward Miller . . . 1894 . London . 4 . 1 . 267 .
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 . 134 . 978-0-8028-4098-1.
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 . 106, 159 . 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 . 67 . 0-8028-1918-4 . registration .
9. Henry Stevenson described also minuscule manuscripts: 154, 884, 885, 887.
10. Herman C. Hoskier, Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse 1 (London 1929), p. 389.