Minuscule 444
New Testament manuscript | |
Text | New Testament (except Rev.) |
---|---|
Date | 15th century |
Script | Greek |
Now at | British Library |
Size | 26 cm by 19.5 cm |
Type | Byzantine |
Category | none |
Minuscule 444 (in the
Description
The codex contains the text of the New Testament except Book of Revelation on 324 parchment leaves (26 cm by 19.5 cm).[2] The order of books: Gospels (ff. 1-154), Acts, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles.[3]
The text is written in one column per page, in 25-30 lines per page.[2]
The lists of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) are placed before each book. It contains the τιτλοι (titles) at the top, lectionary equipment at the margin, subscriptions at the end of books,
Text
History
The manuscript was dated by Scrivener and Gregory to the 15th century. Currently it is dated by the
The manuscript came from the Athos (probably). It was bought in 1537 by one Greek man for 500 asper. Bernard Mould bought it in 1722 in Smyrna. It was sold to Edward Harley on 28 July 1725. After his death it was bought for British Museum in 1753.[7]
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by
It is currently housed at the
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. 64.
- ^ ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
- ^ a b Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 190.
- ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (2005) [1894]. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 239.
- ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
- ^ Harleian 5796 at the British Library
- ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (2005) [1894]. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 225.
Further reading
- William H. P. Hatch, Facsimiles and Descriptions of Minuscule Manuscripts of the New Testament (Cambridge, MASS.: Harvard University Press, 1951), pl. lxxxviii.
- Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 246, 462.
- Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1999- ), I, p. 196.
External links
- Harleian 5796 at the British Library