Minuscule 892 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1016 ( Soden). It is a Greek

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of the

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, on 353 parchment leaves (23.5 cm by 11.5 cm). It is dated palaeografically to the 9th century.K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, ''Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments'', Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 100.

Description

The codex contains almost complete text of the four

Gospel Gospel originally meant the Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was set out. In this sense a gospel can be defined as a loose-knit, episodic narrative of the words an ...

s with some lacunae. The texts of John 10:6-12:18 and 14:23-end were inserted by later hand (on paper, about the 16th century). The text is written in one column per page, in 20 lines per page, in minuscule letters. It includes the text of the

Pericope Adulterae Jesus and the woman taken in adultery (or the ) is a passage (pericope) found in John 7:53– 8:11 of the New Testament. It has been the subject of much scholarly discussion. In the passage, Jesus was teaching in the Second Temple after com ...

(John 7:53-8:11) (the first important Greek-only manuscript to have the pericope), Matthew 16:2b–3, Luke 22:43–44, 23:34, and of course Mark 16:9-20. All these texts were questioned by early Alexandrian manuscripts. In this manuscript was omitted interpolation of the Alexandrian text-type in Matthew 27:49. Words in this codex are written continuously without separation.

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 ...

observed that the manuscript preserved the division in pages and lines of its uncial parent. The Ammonian sections and the

Eusebian Canons Eusebian canons, Eusebian sections or Eusebian apparatus, also known as Ammonian sections, are the system of dividing the four Gospels used between late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The divisions into chapters and verses used in modern texts d ...

were given in the left-hand margin.

Synaxarion Synaxarion or Synexarion (plurals Synaxaria, Synexaria; el, Συναξάριον, from συνάγειν, ''synagein'', "to bring together"; cf. etymology of ''synaxis'' and ''synagogue''; Latin: ''Synaxarium'', ''Synexarium''; cop, ⲥⲩⲛⲁ ...

and

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were added in the 13th century. John 10:6-12:18; 14:24-21:25 was added by later hand in the 16th century.

Text

The Greek text of the codex, is a representative of the late

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, with some the

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readings. It is one of the most important of all minuscule manuscripts. It contains many remarkable readings of an early type. According to the

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it represents the Alexandrian text-type as a core member. It is probably the best survived minuscule witness to the Gospels. Aland placed it in Category II. Matthew 19:16 : διδασκαλε (''teacher'') — א, B, D, L, ''f''¹, 892^txt, 1010, 1365, ℓ ''5'', it^{a, d, e, ff1}, cop^bo, eth, geo, Origen, Hilary; : διδασκαλε αγαθε (''good teacher'') — C, K, W, Δ, Θ, ''f''¹³, 28, 33, 565, 700, 892^mg, 1009, 1071, 1079, 1195, 1216, 1230, 1241, 1242, 1253, 1344, 1546, 1646, 2148, 2174, Byz, Lect, it, vg, syr, cop^sa, arm, eth, Diatessaron. In Mark 6:33 it has textual reading ἐκεῖ καὶ προῆλθον αὐτούς along with

Codex Sinaiticus The Codex Sinaiticus (Shelfmark: London, British Library, Add MS 43725), designated by siglum [Aleph] or 01 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 2 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts) ...

Codex Vaticanus The Codex Vaticanus ( The Vatican, Bibl. Vat., Vat. gr. 1209), designated by siglum B or 03 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 1 ( von Soden), is a fourth-century Christian manuscript of a Greek Bible, containing the majority of the Greek Old ...

, 0187 (omit εκει), ℓ ''49'', ℓ ''69'', ℓ ''70'', ℓ ''299'', ℓ ''303'', ℓ ''333'', ℓ ''1579'', (ℓ ''950'' αυτους), it^aur, vg, ( cop^{sa, bo}). In Mark 10:7 phrase και προσκολληθησεται προς την γυναικα αυτου (''and be joined to his wife'') is omitted, as in codices

, Vaticanus,

Codex Athous Lavrensis The Codex Athous Laurae, designated by Ψ or 044 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), or δ 6 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament Manuscripts), is a manuscript of the New Testament written in Greek uncial lette ...

, ℓ ''48'', syr^s, goth. In Luke 4:17 it has textual variant καὶ ἀνοίξας τὸ βιβλίον (''and opened the book'') together with the manuscripts A, B, L, W, Ξ, 33, 1195, 1241, ℓ ''547'', syr^{s, h, pal}, cop^{sa, bo}, against variant καὶ ἀναπτύξας τὸ βιβλίον (''and unrolled the book'') supported by א, D^c, K, Δ, Θ, Π, Ψ, ''f''¹, ''f''¹³, 28, 565,

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, 1010 and many other manuscripts. In John 1:28 it has textual variant Βηθαραβα together with the

(second corrector), syr^h and several other manuscripts. In John 6:1 it reads της θαλασσης της Γαλιλαιας εις τα μερη της Τιβεριαδος – along with

Codex Bezae The Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis, designated by siglum D or 05 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 5 (in the von Soden of New Testament manuscript), is a codex of the New Testament dating from the 5th century writ ...

, Θ, 1009, 1230, 1253.

History

The codex was acquired by the

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in 1887 from H. L. Dupuis.

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, ''The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration'', (

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, 2005), p. 90. Now it is located in the

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(Add. 33277) at

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. It was examined by J. Rendel Harris.

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Minuscule 892
at the ''Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism''
Add MS 33277
BL {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0892 Greek New Testament minuscules 9th-century biblical manuscripts

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