Editing Minuscule 70

'''Minuscule 70''' (in the [[Biblical manuscript#Gregory-Aland|Gregory-Aland]] numbering), ε 521 ([[Biblical manuscript#Von Soden|von Soden]]), is a [[Greek language|Greek]] [[Lower case|minuscule]] [[manuscript]] of the [[New Testament]], on parchment leaves. [[Palaeography|Palaeographically]] it had been assigned to the 15th century.<sup>[1]</sup>

== Description ==

The codex contains complete text of the four [[Gospel]]s on 186 leaves (size 28.5 cm by 17.7 cm). Written in one column per page, 23 lines per page.<sup>[1]</sup> Capital letters in colour. Like minuscule [[Minuscule 62|62]] it has the Latin chapters.<sup>[2]</sup> It contains τιτλοι and κεφαλαια. There are marginal corrections made by Budaeus. It has Latin chapters.<sup>[3]</sup>

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the [[Byzantine text-type]]. [[Kurt Aland|Aland]] placed it in [[Categories of New Testament manuscripts#Category V|Category V]].<sup>[4]</sup>

Wisse in Luke 1 and Luke 20 assigned it to the textual family [[Family Kx|K<sup>x</sup>]]. In Luke 10 he did not made [[Wisse's Profile Method|profile method]] for it.<sup>[5]</sup>

== History ==

The manuscript was written in Paris between 1491-1494 for [[Guillaume Budé]] by [[George Hermonymus]] (like codices [[Minuscule 30|30]] and [[Minuscule 287|287]]).<sup>[2]</sup> It once belonged to Bunckle of London, then to Bp. Moore. It was examined by [[John Mill]].<sup>[3]</sup><sup>[2]</sup> 

It is currently housed in at the [[Cambridge University Library]] (Ll. 2.13), at [[Cambridge]].<sup>[1]</sup>

== See also ==

* [[List of New Testament minuscules]]
* [[Biblical manuscript]]
* [[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. 50.
*   2. [[Caspar René Gregory|C. R. Gregory]], "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 145.
*   3. [[Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener|F. H. A. Scrivener]], "A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament" (London 1894), Vol. 1, p. 203.
*   4. [[Kurt Aland]], and Barbara Aland, "The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism", transl. Erroll F. Rhodes, [[William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company]], Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995, p. 138.
*   5. Frederik Wisse, The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1982, p. 54.

== Further reading ==


== External Link ==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuscule_70 Wikipedia Article on Minuscule 70]
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