Minuscule 30

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| form = Minuscule | number = 30 | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 15th-century | found = | now at = National Library of France | cite = | size = | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = close to minuscules 17, 70 marginalia

Minuscule 30 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 522 (Von Soden) is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on 313 paper leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 15th-century. Formerly Colbertinus 4444. It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 313 paper leaves (22.7 cm by 14.9 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 14 lines per page.

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin (in Greek and Latin) and their τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is no another division according to the Ammonian Sections with references to the Eusebian Canons.{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes | publisher = J.C. Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 135 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n147/mode/2up

Scrivener suggested it was made by the same scribe (George Hermonymus), who copied Minuscule 17 and 70, whose text it much resembles.{{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 = 195

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 the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.{{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 | page = 53 | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/53 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 It belongs to the textual cluster 17 along with manuscripts 70, 120, 287, 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 | page = 95 | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/95 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4

History

The manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 15th-century.

The manuscript once belonged to J. B. Hantin, a French numismatic. Bishop Moore in 1706 took this manuscript from Hantin's library. It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by J. J. Wettstein, who gave it the number 30.{{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 = 72 | url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}

It was examined and described by John Mill (Colbertinus 4 for Matthew), Scholz (1794-1852) Scholz found that its text much resembles minuscule 17. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1884.

It is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 100) in Paris.

References

References

  1. Gregory, Caspar René. (1908). "Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament". J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung.
  2. [[Kurt Aland. K. Aland]], M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", ''[[Walter de Gruyter]]'', Berlin, New York 1994, p. 48.
  3. "Liste Handschriften". Institute for New Testament Textual Research.
  4. and [[Paulin Martin]].[[Paulin Martin. Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin]], ''Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris'' (Paris 1883), p. 41

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