Minuscule 688

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Minuscule 688 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε246 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1179. The manuscript has complex contents.{{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 = 88 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }} Scrivener labelled it by 592e.{{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, vol. 1 | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1894 | edition = fourth | location = London | page = 259

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 226 parchment leaves (size ), in 24 quires. The text is written in two columns per page, 24 lines per page.{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1 | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | page = 212 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n225/mode/2up

It contains Synaxarion, Prolegomena, the tables of the κεφαλαια (contents) are placed before each Gospel, numbers of the κεφαλαια (chapters) are given at the left margin, the τιτλοι (titles) at the top, the Ammonian Sections (Mark 242, the last section in 16:20), without a references to the Eusebian Canons, lectionary markings, and pictures.

According to Scrivener the manuscript is written "with peculiar, almost barbarous, illuminations".

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Kurt 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 | pages = 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 Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It creates textual cluster with Codex Athous Dionysiou.{{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 = 64 | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/64 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration

History

According to the colophon the manuscript was written by monk John αναγνωστης in 1179. It was bought from Spyridion Lambros from Athens in 1859 (along with the codex 689, 690, 691, 692, and 693).

It was added to the list of New Testament manuscript by Scrivener (592) and Gregory (688).

It was examined by Bloomfied, Dean Burgon,

The manuscript is currently housed at the British Library (Add MS 22736) in London.

References

References

  1. [[Hermann von Soden]], ''Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte'' (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 156.
  2. Gregory, Caspar René. (1908). "Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament". J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung.
  3. [http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php Handschriftenliste] at the Münster Institute
  4. and [[Kirsopp Lake]].Kirsopp Lake & Silva Lake, ''Dated Greek Minuscule Manuscripts to the Year 1200'', Boston II, 82.

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