Minuscule 385

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Minuscule 385 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 506 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. Dated by a colophon to the year 1407 (May).^[1]

Contents 1 Description 2 Text 3 History 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts, Pauline epistles, Catholic epistles, and Book of Revelation on 267 paper leaves (21.8 cm by 14.5 cm) with lacunae (James 1:1-11; Rev 22:2-18.20.21). Written in one column per page, in 26 lines per page.^[1] Initials and titles in red. It contains Prolegomena to the Pauline epistles, prolegomena to the Catholic epistles, subscriptions, and stichoi.^[2]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[3] In Book of Acts some the Western readings.

In Acts 8:39 instead of πνεῦμα κυρίου (spirit of the Lord) it has unusual textual variant (the Holy Spirit fell on the eunuch, and an angel of the Lord caught up Philip) supported by several minuscule manuscripts: Codex Alexandrinus, 94, 103, 307, 322, 323, 453, 467, 945, 1739, 1765, 1891, 2298, 36^a, it^p, vg, syr^h.^[4]

History

The manuscript was written by Georgios Baiophoros, a scribe. It was bound later with Uncial 0121a.

The manuscript was examined by Griesbach and Scholz.

The manuscript is currently housed at the British Library (Harley 5613) in London.^[1]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

• 1. Aland, K.; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 70. ISBN 3110119862.
• 2. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 269.
• 3. 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. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
• 4. Nestle-Aland, Nobum Testamentum Graece, 26th edition, p. 345; Bruce M. Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft: Stuttgart 2001), p. 316.

Further reading

• Griesbach, Symbolae criticae ad supplendas et corrigendas variarum N. T. lectionum collectiones (Halle, 1793), pp. 162-164, 191-212.
• F. H. A. Scrivener, An Exact Transcript of the Codex Augiensis (Cambridge and London, 1859), p. 72.
• Cyril E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 115, 459.

External links

• Harley 5613 at the British Library
• Wikipedia Article on Minuscule 385
• Wikipedia Image on Minuscule 385