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| - | It was examined by [[Johann Jakob Wettstein|Wettstein]], [[Johann Jakob Griesbach|Griesbach]] and [[ | + | It was examined by [[Johann Jakob Wettstein|Wettstein]], [[Johann Jakob Griesbach|Griesbach]] and [[Johann Martin Augustin Scholz|Scholz]]. |
| - | It is currently housed at the [[Bibliothèque nationale de France]] (Gr. 47) at [[Paris]].<ref name = Aland/> | + | It is currently housed at the [[Bibliothèque nationale de France]] (Gr. 47) at [[Paris]].<ref name = Aland/> |
== See also == | == See also == | ||
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Minuscule 18 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 411 (Soden). It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament. According to the colophon it was written in 1364 by Nicephorus Cannavus at Constantinople.<ref name = 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. 48. </ref>
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Description
It is one of few copies of the whole New Testament on 444 parchment leaves (28.9 by 21.3). Written in one column per page, 23 lines per page in a large uncial letters.<ref name = Gregory>Gregory, Caspar René, Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1, 1900, Leipzig, p. 133</ref>
It contains subscriptions, stichoi, synaxaria, Menologion, Euthalian apparatus, but does not have the Eusebian Canons.<ref>F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament (London 1861), p. 144. </ref>
Order of books: Gospels, Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles, Apocalypse.<ref name = Gregory/>
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.<ref>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. </ref> It belongs to the textual family Family Kr.<ref>F. Wisse, The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1982, p. 92.</ref>
History
It was examined by Wettstein, Griesbach and Scholz.
It is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 47) at Paris.<ref name = Aland/>
See also
References
Further reading
- H. C. Hoskier, Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse 1 (London 1929), pp. 150-157.
