Minuscule 904 Explained

Minuscule 904 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 4001 (von Soden),^[1] is a 14th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on paper. It has marginalia. The manuscript has survived in complete condition.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 376 paper leaves (size), with some lacunae. The text is written in one column per page, 23 lines per page.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family I^k. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.^[5]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Π in Luke 1 and Luke 10, as a weak member. In Luke 20 it represents textual family K^x.^[6]

History

According to the colophon it was written in September 1360 by Theophylact. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 14th century.^[3]

It was examined and described by Victor Gardthausen (as 952).^[7]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory (904^e). It was not on the Scrivener's list, but it was added to his list by Edward Miller in the 4th edition of A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament.^[8]

Jacob Greelings collated the text of the Gospel of Matthew and it was included in appendix A to work of S. Kubo.^[9]

It is not cited in critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS4,^[10] NA28^[11]).

The manuscript is housed at the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria (77).

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules (1–1000)
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism
• Minuscule 903

Further reading

• Sakae Kubo, 72 and the Codex Vaticanus, Studies and Documents 27 (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1965), pp. 161-196.

External links

• Web site: Liste Handschriften . Institute for New Testament Textual Research . 11 April 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 . 101 . 3-11-011986-2 .
3. Web site: Liste Handschriften . Institute for New Testament Textual Research . 11 April 2012 . Münster.
4. Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . J.C. Hinrichs . 1900 . Leipzig . 1 . 231 .
5. 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.
6. 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 .
7. Book: Viktor Gardthausen . Catalogus codicum Graecorum Sinaiticorum . Oxford . 1886 . 260–261.
8. Book: Scrivener , Frederick Henry Ambrose . Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener . Edward Miller . . . 1894 . London . 4 . 1 . 276 .
9. Sakae Kubo, 72 and the Codex Vaticanus, Studies and Documents 27 (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1965), pp. 161-196.
10. Book: Aland. B.. Aland. K.. J. Karavidopoulos, C. M. Martini, B. Metzger, A. Wikgren. The Greek New Testament. 4. United Bible Societies . Stuttgart . 1993 . 18*. 978-3-438-05110-3.
11. Book: Nestle, Eberhard et Erwin . communiter ediderunt: B. et K. Aland, J. Karavidopoulos, C. M. Martini, B. M. Metzger . Novum Testamentum Graece . 27 . Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft . Stuttgart . 2001 . 812. 978-3-438-05100-4.