Minuscule 860 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), ε201 (
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 parchment. The manuscript has not survived in complex context.
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 three first Gospels
Matthew
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* Matthew (given name)
* Matthew (surname)
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* ''Matthew'' (album), a 2000 album by rapper Kool Keith
* Matthew (elm cultivar), a cultivar of the Ch ...
,
Mark, and
Luke
People
*Luke (given name), a masculine given name (including a list of people and characters with the name)
*Luke (surname) (including a list of people and characters with the name)
*Luke the Evangelist, author of the Gospel of Luke. Also known as ...
(1:1-24:27) on 144 parchment leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, 27 lines per page.
The ending of Luke (24:27-53) and
Gospel of John were lost.
[ The first 17 leaves originally belonged to the other manuscript.][
The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections, whose numbers are given at the margin (rarely), but references to the Eusebian Canons are absent. It contains lectionary markings at the margin, incipits, and pictures.][
]
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 Category V.
History
Gregory 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 or 13th century.[
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory (860e). Gregory saw it in 1886.][ Scrivener did not list this manuscript.
Currently the manuscript is housed at the Vatican Library (Gr. 774, fol. 17–160), 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 859
Minuscule 859 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Νλ50 ( von Soden), is a 16th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment. The manuscript has not survived in complex context.
Description
The codex contains the text ...
References
Further reading
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External links
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Greek New Testament minuscules
12th-century biblical manuscripts
Manuscripts of the Vatican Library