Minuscule 339
| New Testament manuscript | |
| Text | New Testament |
|---|---|
| Date | 13th century |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | Turin National University Library |
| Size | 21.6 cm by 15.7 cm |
| Category | none |
| Note | marginalia |
Minuscule 339 (in the
Description
The codex originally contained a complete text of the New Testament on 200 parchment leaves (21.6 cm by 15.7 cm). It was written in two columns per page, in 56-58 lines per page.[2] It was written by three different hands.[3] However, it was mostly destroyed by fire at the Turin library in 1904, and only charred fragments remain.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 237 – last in 16:15), whose numbers are given at the margin with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).[3]
It contains the
The order of book is typical for major Greek manuscripts: Gospels, Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles, Book of Revelation, but this order is not original.[3]
It contains the
According to the subscription at the end of the Epistle to the Romans, the Letter was written προς Ρωμαιους εγραφη απο Κορινθου δια Φοιβης της διακονου; the same subscription have manuscripts: 42, 90, 216, 462, 466, 642;[5]
Text
Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.[6] It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.[7]
History
The manuscript was examined by Pasino, Scholz, and
The manuscript is currently housed at the Turin National University Library (B. V. 8) in Turin.[2]
See also
- List of New Testament minuscules
- Biblical manuscript
- Textual criticism
References
- ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 60.
- ^ ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
- ^ a b c d e f Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 180.
- ^ 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. 231.
- ^ Bruce M. Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (2001), p. 477.
- ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
- ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1. London. p. 225.
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Further reading
- Giuseppe Passino, Codices manuscripti Bibliothaece Regii Taurini Athenaei, Turin 1742, vol. 2.
- G. de Sanctis, Rivista di Filologiae d'Instruzione Classica 32 (1904), 584.