Minuscule 887 Explained

Minuscule 887 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering),^[1] is an 11th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment, with a commentary.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of John, with a commentary, on 197 parchment leaves (size). The text is written in one column per page, 38 lines per page.^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

Text

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

History

According to F. H. A. Scrivener and C. R. Gregory it was written in the 11th century. Henry Stevenson dated it to the 10th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 11th century.^[3]

It once belonged to Matariotes, a metropolitan. The manuscript was described by Henry Stevenson.^[7] Gregory saw it in 1886.

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (699^e),^[5] Gregory (887^e).

Currently the manuscript is housed at the Vatican Library (Reg. gr. 9), 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 . 230 .
• Henry Stevenson, Codices manuscripti Graeci Reginae Svecorum et Pii Pp. II. Bibliothecae Vaticanae, descripti praeside I.B. Cardinali Pitra, Rom 1888, pp. 7-8.

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 . 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 . 139 . limited . 978-0-8028-4098-1.
7. Henry Stevenson described also minuscule manuscripts: 154, 884, 885, 886.