Minuscule 4
Minuscule 4 (Gregory-Aland), ε 371 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on 212 parchment leaves (18.5 by 14.3 cm), dated paleographically to the 13th century.<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. 47. </ref> Formerly it was named Codex Regius 84.<ref name = Scrivener>Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). . London: George Bell & Sons. p. 191.</ref>
Description
The codex contains almost complete text of the four Gospels with four lacunae (Matthew 2:9-20; Mark 15:42-16:14; John 1:1-13.49-3:11). Written stichometrically in one column per page, 26-28 lines per page.<ref name = Aland/> It contains Epistula ad Carpianum, tables of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections (Mark 227), Eusebian Canons, lectionary markings, incipits, synaxaria, Menologion, subscriptions, στιχοι, and extracts from some Fathers.<ref name = Gregory>Gregory, Caspar René (1900). . Leipzig. p. 128.</ref> The pericope John 7:53-8:11 is marked with an obelus.<ref name = Gregory/>
Text
The Greek text of this codex is a mixture of text-types. Aland did not place it in any Category.<ref>Aland, Kurt; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). . Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.</ref> Textually it is close to the codex 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 273 and ℓ 547.<ref>Bruce M. Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft: Stuttgart 2001), p. 45. </ref><ref>NA26, p. 60. </ref>
History
The manuscript was used by Erasmus in his edition of 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.<ref name = Scrivener/>
It was examined by Scholz and Martin.<ref name = Gregory/>
The codex is located now at the National Library of France (Gr. 84) in Paris.<ref name = Aland/>
See also
References
External links
- Minuscule 4 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism