Minuscule 344
New Testament manuscript | |
Text | Gospels |
---|---|
Date | 10th century |
Script | Greek |
Now at | Biblioteca Ambrosiana |
Cite | Scholz, Biblisch-kritische Reise (1823) |
Size | 16.4 cm by 12.1 cm |
Type | Byzantine text-type |
Category | V |
Note | marginalia |
Minuscule 344 (in the
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 327 parchment leaves (16.4 cm by 12.1 cm)[2] with lacunae (Luke 13:21-16:23; 21:12-27; 22:12-23; 23:45-John 21:12). The lacking texts were supplied in the 16th century on paper.[3] It is written in one column per page, in 19 lines per page.[2]
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, with their τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 237 Sections, the last in 16:14), without references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).[3]
It contains the
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[4] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20, and belongs to the textual cluster Ω. In Luke 10 no profile was made.[5]
It does not contain the text of Matthew 16:2b–3 (signs of the times) and John 21:25.[3]
History
The manuscript was examined by Scholz (Matthew and John) and
The manuscript is currently housed at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (G. 16 sup.) in Milan.[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 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 181.
- 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 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 225.
Further reading
- J. M. A. Scholz, Biblisch-kritische Reise (Leipzig, 1822), p. 70-73.