Minuscule 386
title: "Minuscule 386" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["greek-new-testament-minuscules", "14th-century-biblical-manuscripts", "manuscripts-in-the-vatican-library"] topic_path: "general/greek-new-testament-minuscules" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuscule_386" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
| form = Minuscule | number = 386 | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = New Testament | script = Greek | date = 14th century | found = | now at = Vatican Library | cite = | size = | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = member of Kr
Minuscule 386 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 401 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 14th century.{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland |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 = 70 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }} It has complex context and some marginalia.
Description
The codex contains the text of the New Testament on 393 parchment leaves (). It is written in one column per page, in 24 lines per page.
It contains the Eusebian Canon tables, lists of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each sacred book, τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages, lectionary markings at the margin, αναγνωσεις (lessons), subscriptions at the end of each sacred book, numbers of στιχοι, Synaxarion, Menologion, and Euthalian Apparatus to Catholic and Pauline epistles.{{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 | pages = 185–186 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n197/mode/2up
The order of books: Gospels, Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles, and Book of Revelation. The text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is marked by an obelus.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kr. 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 = 139 | 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 Kr in Luke 1 and Luke 20. It belongs to the textual cluster 167. 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 | pages = 59, 92 | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/59 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration
History
Formerly the manuscript, together with 388, 389, and 390 belonged to Giovanni Angelo Herzog von Altaemps († 1627).
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 Giuseppe Cozza-Luzi.{{Cite book | last = Cozza-Luzi | first = Giuseppe | author-link = Giuseppe Cozza-Luzi | title = Codices manuscripti graeci ottoboniani Bibliothecae Vaticanae descripti praeside Alphonso cardinali Capecelatro archiepiscopo Capuano | publisher = Ex Typographeo Vaticano | year = 1893 | location = London | page = 43 | url = https://archive.org/stream/codicesmanuscri00cozzgoog#page/n111/mode/2up C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.
It was examined by Ernesto Feron and Fabiano Battaglini (like minuscule 878 and 880).{{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 = 229 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n241/mode/2up
The manuscript is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Ottob. gr. 66) in Rome.
References
References
- Gregory, Caspar René. (1908). "Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament". J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung.
::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::