Editing Minuscule 4

'''Minuscule 4''' ([[Biblical manuscript#Gregory-Aland|Gregory-Aland]]), ε 371 ([[Biblical manuscript#Von Soden|Soden]]), is a Greek [[Lower case|minuscule]] [[manuscript]] of the [[New Testament]], on 212 parchment leaves (18.5 by 14.3 cm), dated [[Palaeography|paleographically]] to the 13th century.<sup>[1]</sup> Formerly it was named ''Codex Regius 84''.<sup>[2]</sup>

== Description ==

The codex contains almost complete text of the four [[Gospel]]s with four [[Lacuna (manuscripts)|lacunae]] (Matthew 2:9-20; Mark 15:42-16:14; John 1:1-13.49-3:11). Written [[Stichometry|stichometrically]] in one column per page, 26-28 lines per page.<sup>[1]</sup> It contains [[Epistula ad Carpianum]], tables of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections (Mark 227), [[Eusebian Canons]], lectionary markings, incipits, [[Synaxarion|synaxaria]], [[Menologion]], subscriptions, [[Stichometry|στιχοι]], and extracts from some Fathers.<sup>[3]</sup> 
The pericope [[Jesus and the woman taken in adultery|John 7:53-8:11]] is marked with an [[obelus]].<sup>[3]</sup>

== Text ==

The Greek text of this codex is a mixture of text-types. [[Kurt Aland|Aland]] did not place it in any [[Categories of New Testament manuscripts|Category]].<sup>[4]</sup> Textually it is close to the codex [[Minuscule 273|273]]. 

In Matthew 21:31 it has textual variant ὁ δεύτερος (''the second'') against ὁ πρῶτος (''the first''),  ὁ ὕστερος (''the last''), or ὁ ἔσχατος (''the last''). This reading is supported by the codex [[Minuscule 273|273]] and [[Lectionary 547|'''ℓ''' ''547'']].<sup>[5]</sup><sup>[6]</sup>

== History ==

The manuscript was used by [[Desiderius Erasmus|Erasmus]] in his edition of [[Novum Instrumentum omne|Novum Testamentum]], and by [[Robert Estienne]] in his [[Editio Regia]] (1550), who designated it by him as γ'. [[John Mill]] noticed its affinity to the Latin versions and the [[Complutensian Polyglot Bible|Complutensian Polyglot]].<sup>[2]</sup> 

It was examined by [[Johann Martin Augustin Scholz|Scholz]] and Martin.<sup>[3]</sup> 

The codex is located now at the [[National Library of France]] (Gr. 84) in [[Paris]].<sup>[1]</sup>

== See also ==

* [[List of New Testament minuscules]]
* [[Textus Receptus]]
* [[Textual criticism]]

== References ==

*   1. [[Kurt Aland|K. Aland]], M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 47.
*   2. [[Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener|Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose]]; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 191. 
*   3. [[Caspar René Gregory|Gregory, Caspar René]] (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 128. 
*   4. [[Kurt Aland|Aland, Kurt]]; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: [[William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company]]. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
*   5. [[Bruce Metzger|Bruce M. Metzger]], A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft: Stuttgart 2001), p. 45.
*   6. NA26, p. 60.



== External links ==

* [http://www.skypoint.com/members/waltzmn/Manuscripts1-500.html#m4e Minuscule 4] at the ''Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism'' 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuscule_4 Wikipedia Article on Minuscule 4]


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