Minuscule 713

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| form = Minuscule | number = 713 | image = | isize = | caption= | name = Codex Algerina Peckower 2 | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 12th century | found = 1876 | now at = University of Birmingham | cite = | size = | type = mixed | cat = none | hand = | note = –

Minuscule 713 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε351 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. The manuscript is lacunose.{{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 = 89 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }} Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener labelled it as 561e.{{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 = 255

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 363 parchment leaves (size ), with some lacunae.{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 215 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n227/mode/2up It lacks texts of John 10:27–11:14; 11:29–42.

The 17th leaf is written in uncial script.

The text is written in one column per page, 16-17 lines per page. The leaves are arranged in quarto.

The manuscript contains lists of the κεφαλαια (lists of contents) before each Gospel. The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the left margin of the text and their τιτλοι (titles) are given at the top. The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections, which numbers are given at the margin, with a references to the Eusebian Canons. It contains lectionary markings, incipits, Synaxarion, Menologion, subscriptions, and pictures.

It is a palimpsest, folios from 2 verso to 364 recto contain the upper text of 713, folios 1–3.352-365 contain the older text of lectionary designated by 586 (Gregory-Aland).

Text

Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.{{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 | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}

J. Rendel Harris recognised textual similarities to minuscule 13. Scrivener described it is one of the Ferrar Family,

Hermann von Soden lists it as Is (along with codices 157, 235, 245, 291, 1012).

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents mixed text in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 it has Byzantine mixed text.{{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 = 65 | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/65 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration

In Matthew 17:26 it has additional reading εφη Σιμων ναι λεγει ο Ιησους δος ουν και συ ως αλλοτριος αυτων; this reading can be found in Ephraem.

History

Scrivener and Gregory dated the manuscript to the 11th or 12th century. The manuscript is dated by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research to the 12th century.

The manuscript used to be held in Athens. It was bought in 1876 from Bernard Quaritch.

It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (561) and Gregory (713). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1883.

The manuscript is currently housed in the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham (Peckover Gr. 7).

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. 177.
  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. J. Rendel Harris, ''Codex Algerina Peckower'' ''Journal of the Society of Biblical Literature and exegesis'', Boston, Massachusetts (1887), p. 79-89
  5. but it was not confirmed by more recent examinations.[http://www.skypoint.com/members/waltzmn/Manuscripts501-1000.html#m713 Minuscule 713] at the ''Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism''
  6. NA26, p. 48.
  7. It was partially collated by [[J. Rendel Harris]] in Matthew.J. Rendel Harris, ''Codex Ev 561: Codex Algerinae Peckower'', JBL 4 (1886, pp. 79-89

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