Minuscule 395 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 216 (
Soden),
is a
Greek
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minuscule
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manuscript
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of the
New Testament
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, on parchment.
Paleographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.
It contains
marginalia.
Description
The codex contains the text of the four
Gospel
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s on 170 parchment leaves (). The text is written in two columns per page, in 25 lines per page.
[ The text of John 1:19-25 was supplied by a later hand in the 18th century.][
The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their (''titles'') at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 234 Sections, 16:9), with references to the ]Eusebian Canons
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(written below Ammonian Section numbers).[
It contains the tables of the (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel, pictures, and marginal corrections.]
It is a palimpsest
In textual studies, a palimpsest () is a manuscript page, either from a scroll or a book, from which the text has been scraped or washed off so that the page can be reused for another document. Parchment was made of lamb, calf, or kid skin an ...
. The text of minuscule 395 is the upper text of the palimpsest. The lower text is unidentified, written in two columns with 30 lines in columns.[
]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type
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. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Ir (similar to Λ group).[ Aland placed it in Category V.
According to the ]Claremont Profile Method
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it belongs to the textual cluster 490 in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.
History
The manuscript was bought about 1765 A.D.[ The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794–1852).]
C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.[
The manuscript is currently housed at the ]Biblioteca Casanatense
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History
The library was established in 1701 by Antonin Cloche, the Mast ...
(165) in Rome
, established_title = Founded
, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus (legendary)
, image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg
, map_caption ...
.[
]
See also
* List of New Testament minuscules
The list of New Testament Minuscules ordered by Gregory-Aland index number is divided into three sections:
* List of New Testament minuscules (1–1000)
* List of New Testament minuscules (1001–2000)
* List of New Testament minuscules (2001– ...
* Biblical manuscript
* Textual criticism
Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts or of printed books. Such texts may range in da ...
References
Further reading
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Greek New Testament minuscules
12th-century biblical manuscripts
Palimpsests