Minuscule 709

Minuscule 709 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε154 (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 737e.[5]

Minuscule 709
New Testament manuscript
TextGospels †
Date11th century
ScriptGreek
Now atBodleian Library
Size19 cm by 15.5 cm
TypeByzantine text-type
Categorynone

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 140 parchment leaves (size 19 cm by 15 cm),[3][6] with some lacunae in text (Matthew 1:1-20; Luke 15:5-24:53; John 1:1-9:11; 13:3-15:10; 16:21-20:25). The texts of Luke 3:25-4:11; 6:25-42 were supplied by a later hand.[6]

The leaf 133 is a palimpsest with the older text of Luke 6:25-42 (Minuscule 2601),[3] overwriting not much earlier than itself.[5]

The text is written in two columns per page, 30 lines per page.[3] The ornamental headpieces and decorated initials.[7]

The lists of the κεφαλαια (lists of contents) 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 (with the harmony); there is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 237, the last section in 16:15), with references to the Eusebian Canons, and with the harmony in the bottom margin. It contains lectionary markings, incipits, subscriptions, ρηματα, and numbered στιχοι.[6][5]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Kurt Aland did not place it in any Category.[8]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual group Λ in Luke 1 and Luke 10. In Luke 20 the text of the manuscript is defective.[9]

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]

It was probably written in South Italy. It was also suggested that the scribe was Armenian (F. Madan).[5] It was bought in Rhodes, in 1882.[6]

It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (737) and Gregory (709). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1883.[6]

At present the manuscript is housed at the Bodleian Library (Auct. T. inf. 1. 4) 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. 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. Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
  5. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1 (fourth ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 269.
  6. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. pp. 214–215.
  7. MSS. Auctarium at the Bodleian Library
  8. 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.
  9. 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
  • N. G. Wilson, Medieval Greek Bookhands, Cambridge, 1972, p. 27
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