Minuscule 724 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), ε530 (
von Soden),
Hermann von Soden
Baron Hermann von Soden (16 August 1852 – 15 January 1914) was a German Biblical scholar, minister, professor of divinity, and textual theorist.
Life
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 16, 1852, Soden was educated at the University of Tübinge ...
, ''Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte'' (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 208. is a
Greek minuscule
Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (or more formally ''minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing ...
manuscript of the
New Testament written on parchment and partially on paper. It is dated by a
Colophon to 1520 CE. The manuscript has complex contents.
[Handschriftenliste]
at the Münster Institute Scrivener labelled it as 829
e.
Description
The
codex
The codex (plural codices ) was the historical ancestor of the modern book. Instead of being composed of sheets of paper, it used sheets of vellum, papyrus, or other materials. The term ''codex'' is often used for ancient manuscript books, with ...
contains the text of the
four Gospels on 203
parchment and paper leaves (size ).
[
The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), Greek and Latin, but there are no (''titles'') at the top or bottom.][
It contains lists of the (''tables of contents'') with a harmony before each Gospel, subscriptions at the end, and Pseudo-Dorotheus ''Lives of the Evangelists''.][
]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.
History
Gregory dated the manuscript to the 15th century.[ The manuscript is currently dated by the ]INTF
The Institute for New Testament Textual Research (german: Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung — INTF) at the University of Münster, Westphalia, Germany, is to research the textual history of the New Testament and to reconstruct its G ...
to the year 1520.[
The manuscript is now housed at the Austrian National Library (Suppl. gr. 175) in Vienna.][
]
See also
* List of New Testament minuscules
* Biblical manuscript
A biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. Biblical manuscripts vary in size from tiny scrolls containing individual verses of the Jewish scriptures (see ''Tefillin'') to huge polyglot codices (multi-ling ...
* Textual criticism
References
Further reading
*
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Greek New Testament minuscules
15th-century biblical manuscripts
Biblical manuscripts of the Austrian National Library