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 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1023 (Soden).[1] It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on vellum. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 10th-century.[2][3] It has liturgical books and marginalia.
Description
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels, on 460 leaves (16 cm by 12.1 cm), though from John 18:3 the text is supplied. 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 κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numerals are given at the margin, the τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 241, the last section in 16:20), with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).[4]
It contains the tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, pictures. Liturgical books with hagiographies (Synaxarion and Menologion) were added by a later hand.[5]
It was extensively altered by a later hand.[5]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is 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 it represents textual cluster M27 (as a core member). It creates 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
The codex is dated by the INTF to the 11th-century.[3]
The first collation was prepared by Larroque (along with the codices 28-33), but it was very imperfect.[5]
The codex was examined and described by John Mill (Colb. 1), Wettstein, Scholz (1794-1852), and Paulin Martin.[10] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.[4]
The codex is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 115) at Paris.[2][3]
See also
References
- ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 49.
- ^ a b K. Aland; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 48.
- ^ a b c "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 2013-09-26.
- ^ a b c Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes. 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
- 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.