Minuscule 314
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| form = Minuscule | number = 314 | image = Minuscule 314 ff.47v-48r.jpg | isize = | caption= Folios 47 verso – 48 recto | name = | sign = | text = Acts, Paul, Rev. † | script = Greek | date = 11th century | found = | now at = Bodleian Library | cite = | size = | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = beautifully written | note =
Minuscule 314 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), O11 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.{{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 = 65 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }} Formerly it was labelled by 23a, 28p, and 6r.
Description
The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles, and Book of Revelation on 299 parchment leaves () with numerous lacunae. The text is written in one column per page, biblical text in 22 lines per page, text of commentary in 57-66 lines per page.{{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 = 265 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n277/mode/2up According to Scrivener it is "a beautiful little book".{{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 = 286
; Lacunae Acts 1:1-3:10; 3:10-11:13; 14:9-26; 17:6-19; 20:28-24:12 1 Peter 2:2-16; 3:7-21; 2 Corinthians 9:14-11:9; Gal 1:1-18; Ephesians 6:1-19; Philippians 4:7-23; Rev 1:10-17; 9:11-17; 17:10-18:8; 20:1-22:21.
Acts 1:1-3:10 was supplied in the 14th century. It contains lists of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each sacred book, Euthalian Apparatus, Prolegomena, and scholia on the Epistles.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.{{Cite book | last1 = Aland | first1 = 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 | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}
History
The manuscript was written in Ephesus. and Bloomfield. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883. Formerly it was labelled by 23a, 28p, and 6r. In 1908 Gregory gave number 314 for it.
A full Commentary on the Apocalypse, was edited by J. A. Cramer in 1840.
The manuscript is currently housed at the Bodleian Library (MS. Barocci 3) at Oxford.
References
References
- Gregory, Caspar René. (1908). "Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament". J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung.
- It was examined by [[Richard Bentley]] (χ'), [[John Mill (theologian). John Mill]] (Baroc.), Caspar, [[Johann Jakob Wettstein]], [[Johann Jakob Griesbach]] (only 1 Cor. 15),J. J. Griesbach, [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_PqcUAAAAQAAJ ''Symbolae criticae ad supplendas et corrigendas variarum N. T. lectionum collectiones''] (Halle, 1793)
- S. T. Bloomfield, [https://books.google.com/books?id=PNgtAAAAYAAJ ''Critical Annotations: Additional and Supplementary on the New Testament''] (1860)
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