Minuscule 323
New Testament manuscript | |
Name | Codex Genevensis |
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Text | Acts, Paul |
Date | 12th century |
Script | Greek |
Now at | Bibliothèque de Genève |
Size | 13.5 cm by 10.2 cm |
Type | Alexandrian text-type |
Category | II, III |
Note | Family 1739 |
Minuscule 323 (in the
Description
The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 374 parchment leaves (13.5 cm by 10.2 cm) with some lacunae. The text is written in one column per page, in 18 lines per page.[2] The texts of Acts 1:1-8; 2:36-45 were supplied by a later hand. There are other small defects. It is beautifully but carelessly written, without subscriptions at the end of books.[3]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, but the Byzantine element is very strong. Aland assigned it to Category II in Catholic epistles, and to Category III elsewhere. Textually it is very close to the codex 322, as a sister manuscript.[4]
It is a member of the textual family 1739.
In Acts 8:37 it has an additional verse together with the manuscripts Codex Laudianus, 453, 945, 1739, 1891, 2818 (formerly 36a), and several others.[5]
In Acts 8:39 it has addition πνεῦμα ἅγιον ἐπέπεσεν ἐπὶ τὸν εὐνοῦχον, ἄγγελος δέ κυρίου ἥρπασεν τὸν Φίλιππον (the holy spirit fell on the eunuch, and an angel caught up Philip). This reading is supported by the manuscripts Codex Alexandrinus, 453, 945, 1739, 1891, 2818, itp, vg, syrh, and several others.[5]
History
The manuscript was brought from Greece. It was examined by
Formerly it was designated by 29a and 35p.[6] In 1908 Gregory gave the number 323 to it.[1]
The manuscript is currently housed in the Bibliothèque de Genève (Gr. 20) in Geneva.[2]
See also
- List of New Testament minuscules
- Biblical manuscript
- Textual criticism
References
- ^ a b Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 59.
- ^ ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
- ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 287.
- ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ a b Nestle-Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece, 26th edition, p. 345; Bruce M. Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft: Stuttgart 2001), p. 316.
- ^ a b Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 266.
Further reading
- W. J. Elliott, The Relationship between 322 and 323 of the Greek New Testament, JTS 18 (1967), pp. 423–25.
External links
- Minuscule 323 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism