Minuscule 2284

Minuscule 2284
New Testament manuscript
TextGospels
Date13th century
ScriptGreek
Now atJohn Rylands University Library
Size11.1 cm by 8.2 cm
TypeByzantine text-type
Categorynone

Minuscule 2284 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε359 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. The manuscript has complex contents. Gregory labelled it by siglum 704. Scrivener labelled it by 886e.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on two volumes, 324 parchment leaves (size 11.1 cm by 8.2 cm).

The text is written in one column per page, 18-21 lines per page.

The first pages in Matthew have a Latin translation on the margin.

Text

Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.

According to the Wisse's Profile Method it represents mixed Byzantine text, related to the textual family Kr in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.

History

Scrivener and Gregory dated the manuscript to the 13th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 13th century.

It was added to the list of New Testament manuscript by Gregory (704). It was renumbered by Aland as 2284.

Formerly it was housed in London, in Quaritch (Catalogue 94, No. 145).

Actually the manuscript is housed at the John Rylands University Library (Ms. Gr. 18) in Manchester.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 178.
  2. ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 73.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 178. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  4. 1 2 3 Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
  5. 1 2 Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1 (fourth ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 275.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 214.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ↑ 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. pp. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  8. ↑ 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. p. 85. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.

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