Minuscule 27
| New Testament manuscript | |
| Text | Gospels |
|---|---|
| Date | 10th-century |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | National Library of France |
| Size | 16 cm by 12.1 cm |
| Type | Byzantine text-type |
| Category | V |
| Note | marginalia |
Minuscule 27 is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament Gospels, written on vellum. It is designated by Min. 27 in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts, and ε 1023 in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts.[1] Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it has been assigned to the 10th century.[2][3] It has liturgical books and marginalia.
Description
[edit]The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book format), containining a complete text of the four Gospels, written on 460 leaves (16 cm by 12.1 cm). From John 18:3 the original manuscript has had its original pages replaced with them supplied in a later hand. The text is written in one column per page, 19 lines per page. It is ornamented in gold and silver.[4]
The text is divided according to the chapters (known as κεφαλαια / kephalaia), whose numerals are given at the margin, with the chapter titles (known as τιτλοι / titloi) written at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 241, the last section is in 16:20), with references to the Eusebian Canons written below Ammonian Section numbers (both early systems of dividing the New Testament into sections).[4]
It contains the tables of contents (also known as κεφαλαια) before each Gospel, along with pictures of the Evangelists. The liturgical books with hagiographies (known as the Synaxarion and Menologion) were added by a later hand.[5] It was extensively altered by a later hand.[5]
Text
[edit]The Greek text of the codex is considered a representative of the Byzantine text-type; the text-types are groups of different manuscripts which share specific or generally related readings, which then differ from each other group, and thus the conflicting readings can separate out the groups, which are then used to determine the original text as published; there are three main groups with names: Alexandrian, Western, and Byzantine.[6] Biblical scholar and textual critic Kurt Aland placed it in Category V according to his manuscript text classification system.[7] It belongs to the textual Family 1424.
According to the Claremont Profile Method (a specific analysis of textual data) it represents textual cluster M27 as a core member. It creates a cluster, to which belong the manuscripts: 71, 569, 692, 750, 1170, 1222, 1413, 1415, 1458, 1626, 2715.[8]
In Luke 10:21, it has an interesting reading that agrees with 𝔓45 in omitting καὶ τῆς γῆς/and the earth, a reading reported by the early church fathers Tertullian and Epiphanius as being that in Marcion's edit of Luke's Gospel. The omitted text καὶ τῆς γῆς was inserted in the right hand margin as a correction.[9]
History
[edit]The first collation was prepared by Larroque (along with the codices 28-33), but according to Biblical scholar Frederick H. A. Scrivener, it was very imperfect.[5] It was examined and described by John Mill (designated by him as Colb. 1), the textual critics Johann J. Wettstein, Johann M. A. Scholz (died 1852), and Paulin Martin.[10] Biblical scholar Caspar René Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.[4]
The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (shelf number Gr. 115) at Paris.[2][3] The manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 11th-century.[3]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament [The Greek Manuscripts of the New Testament]. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs. p. 49.
- ^ a b Aland, Kurt; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments [A Concise List of the Greek Manuscripts of the New Testament]. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 48.
- ^ a b c "Liste Handschriften: Minuscule 27". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 2013-09-26.
- ^ a b c Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes [The Textual Criticim of the New Testament] (in German). Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. pp. 134–135.
- ^ a b c Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 194.
- ^ Metzger, Bruce Manning; Ehrman, Bart D. (2005). The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration (4th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 205–230. ISBN 0-19-516667-1.
- ^ Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ Wisse, Frederik (1982). The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. pp. 53, 100. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
- ^ Royse, James R. (2008). Scribal Habits in Early Greek New Testament Papyri. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature. p. 137. ISBN 978-1-58983-522-1.
- ^ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 40
External links
[edit]- R. Waltz, Minuscule 27 at the Encyclopaedia of Textual Criticism (2008)
- Images from Microfilm of manuscript on the CSNTM website.
- Images of manuscript online at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France website.