Minuscule 428
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| form = Minuscule | number = 428 | image = | isize = | caption= | name = Monacensis 381 | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 13th century | found = | now at = Bavarian State Library | cite = | size = | type = mixed | cat = none | hand = | note = no marginalia
Minuscule 428 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θε33 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on cotton paper. 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 = 72 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 335 paper leaves (). It is written in one column per page, in 33 lines per page.
It contains rude pictures of Evangelists on a vellum leaf and commentary of Theophylact.{{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 = 189 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n201/mode/2up It has the famous the Jerusalem Colophon in Gospel of Matthew. It contains subscriptions like codex 262. It has pictures, some excerpts from Hippolitus, Eusebius, Isidor, and Hesuchius.
Textually seems to be a copy from the codex 300, or taken from the same manuscripts.{{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 = 237
Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.{{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}}
History
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 | volume = 1 | page = 225 Scholz examined major part of it. It was also examined by Dean Burgon. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.
Formerly the manuscript was held in Augsburg. It is currently housed at the Bavarian State Library (Gr. 381) in Munich.
References
References
- Gregory, Caspar René. (1908). "Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament". J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung.
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