Minuscule 848 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θ^ε47 ( von Soden), is a 14th-century 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 on parchment. The manuscript has no complex content.

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 Gospel of Luke on 442 parchment leaves (size ), with a

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. The text is written in one column per page, 21 lines per page. The biblical text is surrounded by a

, the commentary is of Theophylact's authorship. It contains Prolegomena at the beginning and the tables of the (''tables of contents'') before the Gospel.

Text

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

Kurt Aland Kurt Aland (28 March 1915 – 13 April 1994) was a German theologian and biblical scholar who specialized in New Testament textual criticism. He founded the '' Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung'' (Institute for New Testament Textua ...

the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category V. According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family K^x in Luke 10 and Luke 20. In Luke 1 it has mixed text. It belongs to the textual pair with 1255.

History

F. H. A. Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 11th century,

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 it to the 14th century. Currently the manuscript is 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 14th century. The manuscript once belonged to Cardinal Domenico Passionei. It was examined and described (with a facsimile) by Giuseppe Bianchini.G. Bianchini, ''Evangeliarium quadruplex latinae versionis antiquae seu veteris italicae'' (Rome, 1749), vol. 2, p. 563 The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (611^e) and Gregory (848^e).

saw it in 1886. Currently the manuscript is housed at the Biblioteca Angelica (Ms. 21), in Rome.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 848 Greek New Testament minuscules 14th-century biblical manuscripts

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