Minuscule 858 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), Θ
ε423 (
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 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 four
Gospels and the
Pauline epistles
The Pauline epistles, also known as Epistles of Paul or Letters of Paul, are the thirteen books of the New Testament attributed to Paul the Apostle, although the authorship of some is in dispute. Among these epistles are some of the earliest extan ...
on 588 paper leaves (size in the Gospels, in the Pauline epistles). The text of the Gospels is written in one column per page, 48 lines per page. The text of the Pauline epistles is written in one column per page, and 24 lines per page.
It contains 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 dated the manuscript to the 15th 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 was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (671e)][ and Gregory (858e). Gregory saw it in 1886.][
Currently the manuscript is housed at the Vatican Library (Gr. 647), 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 857
* Minuscule 859
References
Further reading
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External links
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Greek New Testament minuscules
14th-century biblical manuscripts
Manuscripts of the Vatican Library