Minuscule 346

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Minuscule 346
New Testament manuscript
TextGospels
Date12th century
ScriptGreek
Now atBiblioteca Ambrosiana
CiteScholz, Biblisch-kritische Reise (1823)
Size22.3 cm by 16.5 cm
TypeCaesarean text-type
CategoryIII
Handcarelessly written
Notemember of ƒ13

Minuscule 346 (in the

minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on parchment. Using the study of comparative handwriting styles (palaeography) it has been assigned to the 12th century.[2]
It has notes in the margin (known as marginalia).

Description

The manuscript is a

Menologion (a list of readings to be read each calendar month).[3]

The text is written in one column per page, with 31–32 lines per page.

F. H. A. Scrivener, it was carelessly written.[4]

The text is divided according to the chapters (known as κεφαλαια / kephalaia), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their titles (known as τιτλοι / titles) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the

Ammonian Sections (in Mark 234 Sections – the last in 16:9), whose numbers are given at the margin, but without references to the Eusebian Canons (an early system of dividing the four Gospels into different sections).[3]

It contains the tables of contents (also known as κεφαλαια) before each Gospel, lectionary markings in the margin (for liturgical use), subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, numbers of "remata", and numbers of στιχοι / stichoi (the list of lines written in each gospel).[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex has been considered a representative of the Caesarean text-type. The text-types are groups of different New Testament manuscripts which share specific or generally related readings, which then differ from each other group, and thus the conflicting readings can separate out the groups. These are then used to determine the original text as published; there are three main groups with names: Alexandrian, Western, and Byzantine.[5] The Caesarean text-type however (initially identified by biblical scholar Burnett Hillman Streeter) has been contested by several text-critics, such as Kurt and Barbara Aland.[6]: 55–56  Aland placed it in Category III of his New Testament manuscript classification system.[6] Category III manuscripts are described as having "a small but not a negligible proportion of early readings, with a considerable encroachment of [Byzantine] readings, and significant readings from other sources as yet unidentified."[6]: 335 

It is a member of the textual family ƒ13.[3] According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to ƒ13 as a core member.[7]

It has many unusual readings (e.g. Matt 1:16 — ω μνηστευθεισα παρθενος Μαριαμ εγεννησεν Ιησουν τον λεγομενον χριστον (to whom the virgin Mary had been betrothed, begat Jesus, the one called Christ)).[4]

History

Gregory dated the manuscript to the 12th century.

INTF to the 12th century.[2]

The manuscript was bought in 1606 at "Callipoli in Salentinis" (

C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.[3]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (S. 23 sup.) in Milan.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs. p. 60.
  2. ^
    ISBN 3-11-011986-2
    .
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 181.
  4. ^ a b c 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.
  5. ISBN 0-19-516667-1
    .
  6. ^
    ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1
    .
  7. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4
    .
  8. Macmillan & Co.

Further reading

  • J. M. A. Scholz, Biblisch-kritische Reise (Leipzig, 1823), p. 70–73.

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