Minuscule 867 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε400 ( 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 context, and some

marginalia Marginalia (or apostils) are marks made in the margins of a book or other document. They may be scribbles, comments, glosses (annotations), critiques, doodles, drolleries, or illuminations. Biblical manuscripts Biblical manuscripts have ...

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 on 223 parchment leaves (size ), with one lacuna (Matthew 1:1-6:1). The text is written in one column per page, 20 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 Prolegomena (explanation of using of the Eusebian Canons), tables of the (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel with a Harmony, lectionary markings at the margin (for Church reading), (''lessons''), subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, with numbers of stichoi, and numbers of Verses.

Text

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

Hermann von Soden Baron Hermann von Soden (16 August 1852 – 15 January 1914) was a German Biblical scholar, minister, professor of divinity, and textual theorist. Life Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 16, 1852, Soden was educated at the University of Tübinge ...

classified it to the textual family K^r.

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 placed in Category V. According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family K^r in Luke 1 and Luke 20, as a perfect member of the family. In Luke 10 no profile was made. The text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is marked by an obelus.

History

F. H. A. Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 15th or 14th 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 (680^e) and Gregory (867^e). Gregory saw it in 1886. Currently the manuscript is housed at the Vatican Library (Gr. 1895), in Rome.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 867 Greek New Testament minuscules 14th-century biblical manuscripts Manuscripts of the Vatican Library

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