Minuscule 16 Explained

Minuscule 16 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 449 (Soden).[1] It is a diglot Greek-Latin minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on 361 parchment leaves, dated palaeographically to the 14th-century.[2] It has full marginalia and was prepared for liturgical use.

Description

The codex contains almost complete text of the four Gospels with lacunae (Mark 16:14–20). The text is written in two columns per page, 26 lines per page.[2] [3]

The text is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, with the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, with no references to the Eusebian Canons.

It contains the Eusebian Canon tables (Latin) at the beginning, tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), and subscriptions at the end of each of the Gospels.[4]

The text of the codex is written in four colours. "The general run of the narrative is in vermilion; the words of Jesus, the genealogy of Jesus, and the words of angels are in crimson; the words quoted from the Old Testament as well as those of the disciples, Zachariah, Elizabeth, Mary, Simeon, and John the Baptist are in blue; and the words of Pharisees, the centurion, Judas Iscariot, and the devil are in black."[5] It contains only one picture.

In the Greek text Mark 16:14–20 and in the Latin text Mark 9:18–16:20 were lost. Latin texts of Mark 9:18–11:13, Luke 5:21–44; John 1:1–12:17 were added by a later hand.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is mixed but the Byzantine text-type is predominant. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Iβb, it means it has some the Caesarean readings. Aland did not place it in any Category.[6]

In 2014, Kathleen Maxwell demonstrated minuscule 16 to be dependent upon minuscule 1528. There are red crosses at various points throughout 1528 corresponding to the locations of illustrations in 16.[7]

Textually it is close to the manuscripts 119, 217, 330, 491, 578, 693, 1528, and 1588. They create textual Group 16 with following profile:

Luke 1: 8, (9), 13, 23, 28, 34, 37, 43.

Luke 10: 3, 7, 15, 19, 23, (25), 58, 63.

Luke 20: 4, 13, 19, 50, 51, 54, 55, 62, 65.[8]

Codex 16 forms a pair with codex 1528 which adds reading 3 and lacks 9 in Luke 1, and lacks 19 and adds 64 in Luke 10.

The Latin text in Matt. 7:13 has textual variant: "lata via et spaciosa est lila quae"; in Mt 13:3 "Ecce qai exiit Seminare Semen suum, et dum seminat quaedam cecid."[9]

History

The manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 14th-century.

Formerly the codex was in the hands of Strozzi family, then of Catherine de' Medici. It was examined by Wettstein, Scholz, and Paulin Martin.[10] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1884.

It is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 54) at Paris.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Gregory, Caspar René. Caspar René Gregory. Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. 1908. J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. Leipzig. 48.
  2. Book: Aland , K. . Kurt Aland . M. Welte . B. Köster . K. Junack . Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments . . Berlin, New York . 1994 . 2 . 47 . 3-11-011986-2.
  3. Web site: Liste Handschriften . Institute for New Testament Textual Research . 2014-01-31 . Münster . https://web.archive.org/web/20180220015104/http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/liste . 2018-02-20 . dead .
  4. Book: Scrivener , Frederick Henry Ambrose . Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener . Edward Miller . . . 1894 . London . 4 . 1 . 193 .
  5. [Bruce M. Metzger]
  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 . 129, 138 . limited . 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  7. Maxwell, Kathleen. Between Constantinople and Rome: An Illuminated Byzantine Gospel Book (Paris gr. 54) and the Union of the Churches. London: Ashgate, 2014.
  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 . 53, 107 . 0-8028-1918-4 . registration .
  9. Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes . J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung . 1900 . Leipzig . 1 . 132 .
  10. [Paulin Martin|Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin]