Minuscule 388
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| form = Minuscule | number = 388 | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 13th century | found = | now at = Vatican Library | cite = | size = | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = marginalia
Minuscule 388 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 302 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th 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 marginalia.
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 315 parchment leaves (). It is written in one column per page, in 21 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 233 Sections, the last in 16:8), with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).
It contains the tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, incipits, αναγνωσεις (lessons), Synaxarion, Menologion, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, numbers of stichoi, and pictures. It is ornamented with silver.{{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 = 185 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n197/mode/2up | 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 = 234
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx. 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 textual family Π171 in Luke 1 (weak), Luke 10, and Luke 20. It creates textual pair with 2584.{{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 = 59 | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/59 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration
The text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is omitted.
History
It was variously dated in the past (11th, 12th, 13th century). Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 13th century.
The manuscript once belonged to Alexius and Theodora, then, together with 386, 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 = 124 | url = https://archive.org/stream/codicesmanuscri00cozzgoog#page/n193/mode/2up C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.
The manuscript is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Ottob. gr. 212) in Rome.
References
References
- Gregory, Caspar René. (1908). "Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament". J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung.
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