Minuscule 754 (Gregory-Aland)
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Minuscule 754 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A142 ( 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. 253.
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. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. The manuscript has no complex contents.Handschriftenliste
at the Münster Institute
Scrivener labelled it as 763e.


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 464 parchment leaves (size ), with some lacunae (Matthew 6:25-8:19; John 21:18-25). The texts of Matthew 6:25-8:19; John 21:18-25 were supplied by a later hand on paper. The biblical text is surrounded by a
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. The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections, with a references to the Eusebian Canons. It contains Epistula ad Carpianum, lectionary markings at the margin, and a commentary. The manuscript is ornamented.


Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V. It was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method. In John 2:22 it reads ελεγε αυτοις along with
Codex Cyprius Codex Cyprius, designated by Ke or 017 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 71 ( von Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the four Gospels, on parchment. It has been variously dated (8th–11th centuries), but it is currently dated to the 9th ...
, Codex Petropolitanus,
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, lectionary 1076; majority reads ελεγε;


History

Scrivener and Gregory dated the manuscript to the 11th 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 11th century. The manuscript was brought from
Janina Ioannina ( el, Ιωάννινα ' ), often called Yannena ( ' ) within Greece, is the capital and largest city of the Ioannina regional unit and of Epirus, an administrative region in north-western Greece. According to the 2011 census, the c ...
. It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (763) and Gregory (754). The manuscript is now housed at the
Bibliothèque nationale de France The Bibliothèque nationale de France (, 'National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites known respectively as ''Richelieu'' and ''François-Mitterrand''. It is the national repository ...
(Suppl. Gr. 1076) in Paris.


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 * Minuscule 753


References


Further reading

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 754 Greek New Testament minuscules 11th-century biblical manuscripts Bibliothèque nationale de France collections