Minuscule 866 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), ε405 (
von Soden),
is a 16th-century
Greek minuscule
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manuscript of the
New Testament on paper. The manuscript has no complex context, and some
marginalia
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Biblical manuscripts
Biblical manuscripts have ...
.
Description
The
codex
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contains the text of the
Gospel of Matthew (7:25-10:40) on 7 paper leaves (size ), with a
catena
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Science
* ''Catena'' (fly), a genus in the family Tachinidae
*Catena (linguistics) is a unit of syntax and morphology, closely associated with dependency grammars
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. It has some
lacunae. The text is written in one column per page, 26 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin of the text, but without their (''titles'') at the top of the pages. It contains lectionary markings at the margin (for Church reading), and (''lessons'').
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
C. R. Gregory
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* Century, sometimes abbreviated as ''c.'' or ''C.'', a period of 100 years
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* Caius or Gaius, abbreviated as ...
dated the manuscript to the 14th century.
[ Currently the manuscript is dated by the ]INTF
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to the 16th century.[ Formerly it was designated by 866a.][ and with minuscule 1918 from the 14th century, with text of ]Apocalypse
Apocalypse () is a literary genre in which a supernatural being reveals cosmic mysteries or the future to a human intermediary. The means of mediation include dreams, visions and heavenly journeys, and they typically feature symbolic imager ...
.[
]
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 865
References
Further reading
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External links
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Greek New Testament minuscules
16th-century biblical manuscripts
Manuscripts of the Vatican Library