Minuscule 364

Minuscule 364 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1011 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 10th century.[2] It has marginalia.

Minuscule 364

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Text	Gospels
Date	10th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Laurentian Library
Size	13.7 cm by 10 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	marginalia

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 284 parchment leaves (13.7 cm by 10 cm) with catena. It is written in one column per page, in 20 lines per page.[2] The style of characters rather peculiar, without the usual breaks between the Gospels.[3] The style of the characters resembles Slavonic.[4]

The original text of the manuscript was not divided. It was divided by a later hand according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles of chapters). There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons (only in Matthew). This division also was added by later hand.[4][3]

It contains Synaxarion and Menologion were added in the 15th century. Text of Matthew 1:1-13 was added in the 15th century.[4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K^x.[4] Aland placed it in Category V.[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family K^x in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20, and belongs to the textual cluster Ω.[6]

In John 8:8 the codex has unique textual addition: ενος εκαστου αυτων τας αμαρτιας (sins of every one of them).[4] This textual variant have Codex Nanianus, 73, 331, 413, 658, 700, 782, 1592 and some Armenian manuscripts. 652 has this variant on the margin added by a later hand. Minuscule 264 has this textual variant in John 8:6.

History

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794–1852).[7] It was examined by Burgon. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.[4]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Biblioteca Laurentiana (Plutei VI. 24) in Florence.[2]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

1. Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 61.
2. Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 68. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
3. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 233.
4. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 183.
5. 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. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
6. 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. 59. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
7. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1861). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. London. p. 168.

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 183.

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