Minuscule 420

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Minuscule 420
New Testament manuscript
NameMessanensis 1
Text Matthew, Mark
Date10th century
Script Greek
Now at Biblioteca Marciana
Size17.3 cm by 13 cm
Category none
Notemarginalia

Minuscule 420 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 10th century. [1] Marginalia are almost full (no lectionary markings).

Contents

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Matthew and Gospel of Mark on 127 parchment leaves (17.3 cm by 13 cm). It is written in one column per page, in 22 lines per page. [1]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 241 Sections, the last in 16:20), with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers). [2]

It the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, Prolegomena (προγραμμα) to the four Gospels, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, numbers of στιχοι , and pictures (portrait of Matthew and Mark). [2] [3]

Text

It was written by several different hands, with readings from other copies. [3]

Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category. [4]

History

In 1786 the manuscript was examined for Andreas Birch. [2] The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794–1852). [5] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886. [2]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Library of the University (F. V. 18) in Messina. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Aland, Kurt; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 72. ISBN   3-11-011986-2.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 188.
  3. 1 2 Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament . Vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 237.
  4. Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 139. ISBN   978-0-8028-4098-1.
  5. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament . Vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 225.

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