Minuscule 30

Minuscule 30
New Testament manuscript
TextGospels
Date15th-century
ScriptGreek
Now atNational Library of France
Size22.7 cm by 14.9 cm
TypeByzantine text-type
CategoryV
Noteclose to minuscules 17, 70
marginalia

Minuscule 30 is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament Gospels, written on paper. It is designated by the siglum 30. in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts, and ε 522 in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts. Using the study of comparatie handwriting styles (palaeography), it has been assigned to the 15th century. It was formerly known as Colbertinus 4444. It has marginal notes.

Description

The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book format), containing the complete text of the four Gospels written on 313 paper leaves (sized 22.7 cm by 14.9 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 14 lines per page.

The text is divided according to the chapters (known as κεφαλαια / kephalaia, whose numbers are given in the margin in both Greek and Latin numerals, and their titles (known as τιτλοι / titloi) written at the top of the pages. There is no other division according to the Ammonian Sections or the Eusebian Canons (both early systems of division to the Gospels, usually used in manuscripts of the New Testament).

BIblical scholar Frederick H. A Scrivener suggested it was made by the same copyist who copied Minuscule 17 and 70 (both copied by George Hermonymus), whose text it much resembles.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is considered to be a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Biblical scholar Kurt Aland placed it in Category V of his New Testament Manuscript classification system. Category V manuscripts are described as "manuscripts with a purely or predominantly Byzantine text.": 336  

According to the Claremont Profile Method (a specific analysis of textual data), it represents the textual family K in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It belongs to the textual cluster 17 along with the minuscule manuscripts 70, 120, 287, 288, and 880.: 95 

History

The earliest history of the manuscript is unknown. It once belonged to J. B. Hantin, a French numismatic. It was taken from Hantin's library by Bishop Moore in 1706. It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by textual critic Johann J. Wettstein, who gave it the number 30.: 72 

It was examined and described by biblical scholar John Mill, who cited it is Colbertinus 4, and by biblical scholars Johann M. A. Scholz (1794-1852), and Paulin Martin. Scholz found that its text much resembles minuscule 17. Biblical scholar Caspar René Gregory saw the manuscript in 1884.

The manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 15th-century. It is currently housed at the National Library of France (shelf number Gr. 100) in Paris.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament [The Greek Manuscripts of the New Testament] (in German). Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs. p. 49.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 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] (in German). Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 48.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Liste Handschriften: Minuscule 30". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 2026-07-28.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes [Textual Criticism of the New Testament] (in German). Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 135.
  5. 1 2 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. 195.
  6. 1 2 3 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. Translated by Erroll F. Rhodes. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  7. 1 2 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. 53. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
  8. ↑ Martin, Jean-Pierre-Paul (1883). Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris [Technical Description of the Greek New Testament manuscripts held in Paris libraries] (in French). Paris: Maisonneuve fréres et C. Leclerc. p. 41.