Minuscule 775 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε461 ( 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. 196. 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 13th century. The manuscript has complex contents.Handschriftenliste
at the Münster Institute

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 223 parchment leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, 24 lines per page. The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, with their (''titles'') at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 240 sections, the last in 16:9), with a references to the Eusebian Canons. It contains Prolegomena, Argumentum (explanation of using the Eusebian Canons), tables of the (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin,

Synaxarion Synaxarion or Synexarion (plurals Synaxaria, Synexaria; el, Συναξάριον, from συνάγειν, ''synagein'', "to bring together"; cf. etymology of ''synaxis'' and ''synagogue''; Latin: ''Synaxarium'', ''Synexarium''; cop, ⲥⲩⲛⲁ ...

(liturgical book), and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type.

classified it to the textual family I^κ. Aland placed it in Category V. According to the Claremont Profile Method it represent the textual family K^x in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.

History

C. R. Gregory C. or c. may refer to: * Century, sometimes abbreviated as ''c.'' or ''C.'', a period of 100 years * Cent (currency), abbreviated ''c.'' or ''¢'', a monetary unit that equals of the basic unit of many currencies * Caius or Gaius, abbreviated as ...

dated the manuscript to the 13th 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 13th century. The manuscript was noticed in a catalogue from 1876. It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory (775). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886. The manuscript is now housed at the National Library of Greece (58) in Athens.

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