Minuscule 910 Explained

Minuscule 910 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α168 (von Soden),^{[1] [2]} is an 11th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Book of Acts, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles, on 268 parchment leaves (size). It has lacuna in Acts 20:20-35, the text of Acts 7:27-9:40 was relocated after Romans 3:16.

The text is written in one column per page, 18 lines per page.^{[3] [4]}

It contains subscriptions at the end of each book with numbers of Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: στιχοι.^[5]

Text

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

History

According to the colophon the manuscript was written in 1009 by Kiryllos Skythopulos. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 11th century.

It was bought by Robert Curzon in 1834 in the monastery of Saba. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.Facsimile was published in Parham Catalogue.

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (216^a, 234^p)^[7] and Gregory (226^a, 281^p). In 1908 Gregory gave the number 910 to it.

It is currently housed in the British Library (Add MS 39598) in London.

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Minuscule 909
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

Further reading

• Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . J.C. Hinrichs . 1900 . Leipzig . 1 . 282 .

External links

• Web site: Liste Handschriften . Institute for New Testament Textual Research . 25 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: 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. 222.
3. 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 .
4. Web site: Liste Handschriften . Institute for New Testament Textual Research . 25 April 2013 . Münster.
5. Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . J.C. Hinrichs . 1900 . Leipzig . 1 . 282 .
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: Scrivener , Frederick Henry Ambrose . Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener . Edward Miller . . . 1894 . London . 4 . 1 . 299 .