Minuscule 6
New Testament manuscript | |
Text | New Testament (except Rev) |
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Date | 13th century |
Script | Greek |
Now at | Bibliothèque nationale de France |
Size | 14.5 cm by 10.5 cm |
Type | Alexandrian / Byzantine close to Minuscule 4 |
Category | III/V |
Hand | elegantly written |
Note | marginalia |
Minuscule 6 (in the
Description
The codex contains entire of the New Testament except the
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages. The text of Gospels is also divided according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (Matthew 356, Mark 234 – the last section in 16:9, Luke 342, John 226).[3]
It contains Prolegomena, the tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) are placed before each book; it contains
The order of books is usual:
At the end of the Second Epistle to Timothy it has subscription Τιμοθεον Β' απο Ρωμης, the same subscription have manuscripts P, 1739, 1881.[5]
Text
The Greek text of Catholic epistles and Pauline epistles of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, with numerous alien readings. Aland placed it in Category III. This text belongs to the textual Family 1739. In rest of books of New Testament (Gospels and Acts) it is a representative of the Byzantine text-type, it close to the codex 4. Aland placed it in Category V.[6]
According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual group Π6 – along with Codex Petropolitanus – in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.[7]
Noteworthy readings:
- Romans 3:12 omit ουκ εστιν —
- 1 Corinthians 1:14 omit τω θεω — א* B, 6, 424**, 1739
- 1 Corinthians 7:5 it reads τη προσευχη (prayer) along with 𝔓11, 𝔓46, א*, A, B, C, D, F, G, P, Ψ, 33, 81, 104, 181, 629, 630, 1739, 1877, 1881, 1962, it vg, cop, arm, eth. Other manuscripts read τη νηστεια και τη προσευχη (fasting and prayer) or τη προσευχη και νηστεια (prayer and fasting).[8][9]
- Galatians 1:15 omit και καλεσας δια της χαριτος αυτου — P46, 6, 424**, 1739, 1881
- Ephesians 1:1 omit εν εφεσω — P46, B, 6, 424**, 1739
- Ephesians 4:28 omit ταις (ιδιαις) χερσιν — P, 6, 424**, 1739, 1881
- Ephesians 5:31 omit και προσκολληθησεται προς την γυναικα αυτου — 6, 1739*, Origen, Jerome
- 1 Timothy 3:14 omit προς σε (εν) — (F, G), 6, 263, 424**, 1739, 1881
- 2 Timothy 4:8 omit πασσι — D**, 6, 424**, (1739), 1881, lat Ambrosiaster
- Hebrews 5:12 omit τινα — Uncial 075, 6, 424**, 1739, 1881
- Jude 12 it reads ευωχιαις, majority read αγαπαις – majority.
History
The manuscript once belonged to Fontainebleau. It was used by
Wettstein gave the number 6 to it. This number is still in use.
It was cited in 27 edition of Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece only twice (1 Cor 11:24; 15:6).[11]
The codex is currently located at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 112) in Paris.[2][12]
See also
- List of New Testament minuscules
- Textus Receptus
- Textual criticism
References
- ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 48.
- ^ ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 129.
- ^ 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. 191.
- ^ NA26, p. 556.
- ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
- ^ NA26, p. 450.
- ^ UBS3, p. 591.
- ^ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 20
- ^ Kurt Aland, "Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum. Locis parallelis evangeliorum apocryphorum et patrum adhibitis edidit", Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1996, p. XXVII.
- ^ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
Further reading
- J. Neville Birdsall, A Study of Manuscript 1739 and its Relationship to MSS. 6, 424, 1908, and M, (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, 1959).
External links
- Minuscule 6 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism