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Minuscule 668
New Testament manuscript
TextGospels
Date13th/14th century
ScriptGreek
Now atSyracuse University
Size20 cm by 16 cm
TypeByzantine text-type
CategoryV

Minuscule 668 (in the

minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th or 14th century. The manuscript has complex contents.[3][4] Scrivener labelled it by 1144e.[5]

Description

The codex contains the entire of the four Gospels, on 201 parchment leaves (size 20 cm by 16 cm).[3] The text is written in one column per page, 25-28 lines per page.[3][6]

The heading for the Gospel of Mark is titled εκ του κατά Μάρκου.[6][n 1]

The lists of the κεφαλαια are placed before every book, the text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), with τιτλοι (titles). The

Ammonian Sections are given (in Mark 234 Sections - last numbered section in 16:9), with references to the Eusebian Canons.[6]

It contains lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use),

Menologion, and pictures.[6]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.[7]

According to

C. R. Gregory it has good readings.[6]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family Kx in Luke 1; 10; 20.[8]

History

Gregory dated it to the 12th century.[6] Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 13th or 14th century.[4]

The manuscript was bought by Albert L. Long in Constantinople (see Minuscule 667).[1][6]

Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885 in Paris.[6] The manuscript was collated by H. H. Severn in 1928 in his unpublished Ph.D. thesis.[9]

Currently the manuscript is housed at the Syracuse University (Ms. 226.048G), in Syracuse, New York.[3][4]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ In this way are titled the headings of the Gospels in manuscripts: 69, 178, 543.

References

  1. ^
    Hermann von Soden
    , Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 161.
  2. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 71.
  3. ^
    ISBN 3-11-011986-2
    .
  4. ^ a b c Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
  5. ^ 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. 279.
  6. ^ 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. 211.
  7. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1
    .
  8. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4
    .
  9. ^ J. K. Elliott, A bibliography of Greek New Testament Manuscripts (New York 1989), p. 117

Further reading

  • I. H. Hall, On a Cursive Ms. of the Greek Gospels, Proceedings of the American Oriental Society (New Haven, 1884), pp. III-IV; and (1885), pp. CCV-CCVI.
  • K. W. Clark, A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America (Chicago, 1937), pp. 216–217
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