Minuscule 708
New Testament manuscript
TextGospels †
Date11th century
ScriptGreek
Now atBodleian Library
Size19 cm by 15 cm
TypeByzantine text-type
CategoryV
Notefamily Kx

Minuscule 708 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε153 (von Soden),[1][2] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. The manuscript is lacunose.[3][4] Scrivener labelled it as 607e.[5]

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 200 parchment leaves (size 19 cm by 15 cm),[3][6] with one lacuna in text (Matthew 20:15-24:22).[5]

The text is written in one column per page, 30 lines per page.[3] It has ornamental headpieces.

It contains the Eusebian Canon tables at the beginning, the lists of the κεφαλαια are placed before each Gospel.[6]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), which numbers are given the left margin, and their τιτλοι (titles) at the top; there is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with a references to the Eusebian Canons. It contains portraits of the Evangelists (Mark as eagle, John as lion).[6][5]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.[7]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents mixed Byzantine text in Luke 1 and textual family Kx in Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.[8]

History

Scrivener and Gregory dated the manuscript to the 11th century.[6] Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 11th century.[4]

The manuscript was held n Constantinople, where was bought in 1882.[6]

It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (607) and Gregory (708). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1883.[6]

At present the manuscript is housed at the Bodleian Library (MS. Auct. T. inf. 1. 3) in Oxford.[3][4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 142.
  2. ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 73.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 89. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  4. 1 2 3 Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
  5. 1 2 3 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. 261.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 214.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ↑ 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. pp. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  8. ↑ Wisse, Frederik (1982). The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 65. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.

Further reading

  • Kurt Weitzmann & George Galavaris, The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai. The illuminated Greek manuscripts, vol. I: From the ninth to the twelfth century, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1990, p. 81 n. 2
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