Minuscule 88
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Minuscule 88 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) α 200 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it had been assigned to the 12th century.[1]
Formerly it was labelled by 83a, 93p, and 99r.[2]
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Description
The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles, and the Book of Revelation, on 123 parchment leaves (size ). Written in two columns per page, 37 lines per page.[1] It contains prolegomena, tables of κεφαλαια, στιχοι (sometimes in the margin), and Comma Johanneum at the margin added in the 16th century.[3]
The section 1 Cor 14:34-35 is placed after 1 Cor 14:40, just like other manuscripts of the Western text-type (Claromontanus, Augiensis, Boernerianus, itd, g, and some manuscripts of Vulgate).[4][5]
Text
The Greek text of the codex Aland placed in Category III.[6]
In 1 John 5:6 it has textual variant δι' ὕδατος καὶ πνεύματος καὶ αἵματος (through water and spirit and blood) together with the manuscripts: Codex Porphyrianus, 81, 442, 630, 915, 2492, arm, eth[7][a] Bart D. Ehrman identified it as Orthodox corrupt reading.[8] It contains the Comma Johanneum added by a later hand on a margin.[9]
History
The manuscript was written by Evagrius and compared with Pamphilus copy at Caesarea.[2] It was examined by Birch, Scholz.[3]
It is currently housed in at the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III (Ms. II. A.7), at Naples.[1]
See also
Notes
- a. For another variants of this verse see: Textual variants in the First Epistle of John.
References
- 1. K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 51.
- 2. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 291.
- 3. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 271.
- 4. NA26, p. 466.
- 5. Bruce M. Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (Deutsche Biblegesellschaft: Stuttgart, 2001), pp. 499-500.
- 6. 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. 129. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- 7. UBS3, p. 823.
- 8. Bart D. Ehrman, The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1993, p. 60.
- 9. Bruce M. Metzger, The Text of the New Testament (Oxford 2005), p. 147.
Further reading
- Ernst von Dobschütz, "A hitherto unpublished Prologue to the Acts of the Apostles", AJT 2 (Baltimore, 1898), pp. 353-387.
- H. S. Murphy, "On the Text of Codices H and 93", JBL 78 (Philadelphia, 1959), pp. 228-237.
