Minuscule 380

Minuscule 380
New Testament manuscript
TextGospels
Date1499
ScriptGreek
Now atVatican Library
Size23.2 cm by 15.3 cm
TypeByzantine text-type
CategoryV
Notemarginalia

Minuscule 380 is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, made of parchment. It is designated by the siglum 380 in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts, and ε 547 in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1499. It has marginal notes.

Description

The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book format), containing the text of the four Gospels on 202 parchment leaves (sized 23.2 cm by 15.3 cm). The text is written in one column per page, in 23 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. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons written below the Ammonian Section numbers. It contains the Epistle to Carpian, Eusebian Canon tables, prolegomena, tables of contents (also known as κεφαλαια) before each Gospel, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is considered to be a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Textual critic Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx. 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 

The Claremont Profile Method (a specific analysis of textual data) confirmed its Kx membership in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. The text was corrected toward Π groups.

History

The manuscript was written by Demetrius Moschus Lakon for Giovanni Francesco della Mirandola. It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by textual critic Johann M. A. Scholz (1794-1852).: 225 

Biblical scholar Caspar René Gregory saw it in 1886. The manuscript is presently housed at the Vatican Library (shelf number Vat. gr. 2139) in Rome.

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. 61.
  2. 1 2 3 4 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. 69. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  3. 1 2 3 "Liste Handschriften: Minuscule 380". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 2026-10-22.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes [Textual Criticism of the New Testament] (in German). Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 184.
  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. 234.
  6. 1 2 Wisse, Frederik (1982). The Profile Method for Classifying and Evaluating Manuscript Evidence. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 59. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
  7. 1 2 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. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.

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