Minuscule 750

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Minuscule 750 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε1204 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament written on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. The manuscript has no 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 = 91 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }} Scrivener labelled it as 742e.{{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 | edition = 4 | location = London | volume = 1 | page = 269

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 319 parchment leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, 20 lines per page.

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles) at the top. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (inMark 241 Sections, the last in 16:20), without references to the Eusebian Canons.{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 218 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n231/mode/2up

It contains tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, and pictures.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. 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 | pages = 139 | url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}

Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx. According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual cluster M27 in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. It creates a textual pari with 1222.{{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

History

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 11th or 12th century; Gregory dated the manuscript to the 12th century. The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 12th century.

It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (742) and Gregory (750). It was described by Paulin Martin. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.

The manuscript is now housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Suppl. Gr. 914) in Paris.

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. 161.
  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. [[Paulin Martin. Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin]], ''Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au N. T., conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris'' (Paris 1883), p. 91

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