Minuscule 287
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| form = Minuscule | number = 287 | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 1478 | found = | now at = Bibliothèque nationale de France | cite = | size = | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = marginalia
Minuscule 287 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 523 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1478.{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = K. |author2=M. Welte |author3=B. Köster |author4=K. Junack | title = Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments | publisher = Walter de Gruyter | year = 1994 | location = Berlin, New York | page = 64 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }} It has marginalia.
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 322 paper leaves (). The text is written in one column per page, in 18-19 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 234 sections, the last in 16:9), but without references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains pictures.{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 176 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n189/mode/2up
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland | last2 = Aland | first2 = Barbara | author-link2 = Barbara Aland | others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) | title = The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1995 | location = Grand Rapids | page = 138 | url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}} According to Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It belongs to the textual cluster 17 along with manuscripts 17, 30, 70, 120, 288, and 880.{{Cite book | last = Wisse | first = Frederik | title = The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1982 | location = Grand Rapids | pages = 58, 95 | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/58 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration
History
The manuscript was written by George Hermonymus for David Chambellan. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).{{Cite book | last = Scrivener | first = Frederick Henry Ambrose | author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |author2=Edward Miller | title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1894 | location = London | edition = 4 | volume = 1 | page = 225 It was examined and described by Dean Burgon (Guardian, Jan. 22, 1873.) and Paulin Martin. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1884.
The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 98) at Paris.
References
References
- Gregory, Caspar René. (1908). "Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament". J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung.
- [[Paulin Martin. Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin]], ''Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris'' (Paris 1883), p. 70
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