Minuscule 399

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| form = Minuscule | number = 399 | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels † | script = Greek | date = 9th/10th century | found = | now at = National Library of Russia | cite = | size = | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note =

Minuscule 399 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε94 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 9th or 10th century.{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = K. | 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 }}

Description

The codex contains text of the four Gospels, on 214 parchment leaves (). The text is written in one column per page, in 27 lines per page.

The texts of John 5:3.4 and Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) are 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 K1. 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 | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}} According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kx in Luke 10 and Luke 20. In Luke 1 it has a mixture of the Byzantine text-families.{{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 = 60 | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/60 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration

History

The manuscript is dated to the 9th or 10th century. It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory in 1908.

The manuscript is currently housed at the National Library of Russia (Gr. 220) in Saint Petersburg.

Scholz's 399

The codex contains incomplete text of the Gospels: John, Luke, and Matthew, on 220 parchment leaves (). The text is written in one column per page, in 22 lines per page. It contains prolegomena, the tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, numbers of Verses, and a commentary (of John Chrysostom, in Luke of Bostra's).{{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 = 186 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n199/mode/2up

The order of Gospels is the same as in codex 90.

It was examined and described by Giuseppe Passini (as 109). It 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 who slightly examined it. Fenton Hort saw it in 1864. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886. In 1908 Gregory removed it from the list of the New Testament manuscript, because it is rather a commentary than text and sometimes without text.{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament | publisher = J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung | year = 1908 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 62 | url = https://archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n62/mode/2up

The manuscript is currently housed at the Turin National University Library (C. II. 14) in Turin.

References

References

  1. Gregory, Caspar René. (1908). "Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament". J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung.
  2. It contains lectionary markings at the margin.H. v. Soden, ''Die Schriften des Neues Testaments'', p. 131.
  3. Giuseppe Pasino, ''Codices Manuscripti Bibliohecae Regii Taurinensis Athenaei'', Turin 1742, Teil 2.
  4. [http://pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr/rech_manusc/resultManuscrit/filter_ville/336/filter_depot/609/filter_cote/C.%2BII.%2B14%2B%2528Pasini%2B109%2529 TORINO, BNU, C. II. 14 (Pasini 109)]

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