Minuscule 889 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), Θ
ε430 (
von Soden),
is a 14th-century
Greek minuscule
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manuscript of the
New Testament on parchment, with a commentary.
Description
The
codex
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contains the text of the four
Gospels, with a commentary, on 224 parchment leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, 32-34 lines per page.
The commentary is of
Theophylact's authorship.
It contains tables of (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the
Byzantine.
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.
It was not examined according to the
Claremont Profile Method.
History
According to
C. R. Gregory
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* Caius or Gaius, abbreviated as ...
it was written in the 14th century. The manuscript is also dated by the
INTF
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to the 14th century.
Gregory saw it in 1886.
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by
Scrivener (889
e)
and Gregory (889
e).
Currently the manuscript is housed at the
Biblioteca Marciana (Gr. Z. 30 (342)), in
Venice
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.
See also
*
List of New Testament minuscules (1–1000)
*
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 ...
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Textual criticism
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Minuscule 888
Minuscule 888 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θε430 ( von Soden), is a 14th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on paper, with a commentary. The codex has an unusual order of the Gospels. The manuscript was prepared for li ...
References
Further reading
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External links
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Greek New Testament minuscules
14th-century biblical manuscripts