Minuscule 918 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), O ⁶⁶ ( von Soden), is a 16th-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 paper, with a commentary. The manuscript is famous for the Comma Johanneum.

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 Catholic and

Pauline epistles The Pauline epistles, also known as Epistles of Paul or Letters of Paul, are the thirteen books of the New Testament attributed to Paul the Apostle, although the authorship of some is in dispute. Among these epistles are some of the earliest extan ...

on 397 paper leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, 28 lines per page. The Catholic epistles contain a commentary.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type in the Pauline epistles. In the Catholic epistles it has mixed text with some old and valuable readings.

Kurt Kurt is a male given name of Germanic or Turkish origin. ''Kurt'' or ''Curt'' originated as short forms of the Germanic Conrad, depending on geographical usage, with meanings including counselor or advisor. In Turkish, Kurt means "Wolf" and is ...

and

Barbara Aland Barbara Aland, née Ehlers (born 12 April 1937 in Hamburg, Germany) is a German theologian and was a Professor of New Testament Research and Church History at Westphalian Wilhelms-University of Münster until 2002. Biography After having c ...

gave it the following textual profile in the Catholic epistles: 63¹, 7^1/2, 15², 15^s. This means the text of the manuscript agrees with the Byzantine standard text 63 times, and 7 times with the Byzantine when it has the same reading as the original text, it agrees 15 times with the original text against the Byzantine, it has 15 independent or distinctive readings (''Sonderlesarten''). In the Pauline epistles Alands gave the profile – 165¹, 44^1/2, 1², 6^s. Alands placed the Greek text of the Pauline epistles in Category V and the text of the Catholic epistles in the Category III. It contains a spurious biblical passage the Comma Johanneum (from the original scribe).

History

F. H. A. Scrivener dated it to the fourteenth 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 the manuscript to the sixteenth century, which is in conformation with the current dating 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 ...

. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (206^a) Gregory (234^a). Gregory saw it in 1886. It was briefly described by Emmanuel Miller (Miller 8). In 1908 Gregory gave it the number 918. Currently the manuscript is housed at the library of Escorial (Cod. Escurialensis, Σ. I. 5), in

Escurial Escurial is a municipality located in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin) ...

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0918 Greek New Testament minuscules 16th-century biblical manuscripts

Description

Text

History

See also

References

Further reading

External links