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Minuscule 857 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θε28 ( von Soden), is a 12th-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 paper. The manuscript has 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 and Gospel of John on 391 paper leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, 28 lines per page. It is ornamented. The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their (''titles'') at the top of the pages. It contains Prolegomena, tables of the (''tables of contents'') before each of the Gospels, and a commentary of Theophylact's authorship.


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 ...
placed it in any Category V. It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.


History

F. H. A. Scrivener and
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 12th 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 12th century. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (670e) and Gregory (857e). Gregory saw it in 1886. Currently the manuscript is housed at the Vatican Library (Gr. 645), in Rome.


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 856 * Minuscule 858


References


Further reading

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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 857 Greek New Testament minuscules 12th-century biblical manuscripts Manuscripts of the Vatican Library