Minuscule 35

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Minuscule 35 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ309 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on 328 parchment leaves. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 11th century.^[1]

Description

The codex contains the entire New Testament with many corrections. The order of books: Gospels, Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles, and Book of Revelation. Written in 1 column per page, in 27 lines per page.^[1] It contains tables of κεφαλαια, lectionary markings, αναγνωσεις, Synaxarion, Menologion, subscriptions, στιχοι, and many corrections.^[2] It has lectionary equipment fo the Acts, Euthalian apparatus for the Catholic and Pauline epistles, and scholia for the Book of Revelation.^[3]

Text

It has very regular orthography, and differs only slightly from familiar printed editions of the Byzantine text.^[4] Currently it is considered to be one of the best witness of the Byzantine text-type,^[5] and became the basis for The Gospel According to John in the Byzantine Tradition.^[6] It is a member of the textual family Family K^r.^[7]

The text of the manuscript was changed only in 23 places In the Gospel of John.

4:9 συχρωνται changed to συγχρωνται

5:8 εγερται changed to εγειρε

5:8 κραββατον changed to κραβαττον

5:9 κραββατον changed to κραβαττον

5:10 κραββατον changed to κραβαττον

5:11 κραββατον changed to κραβαττον

5:12 κραββατον changed to κραβαττον

12:6 εμελλεν changed to εμελεν

18:23 δαιρεις changed to δερεις

20:16 ραβουνι changed to ραββουνι

In 8 places text follows the corrector instead of the first hand because of an errors of the first hand:

4:13 υδατος 35* τουτο 35^c

4:18 ο 35* ον 35^c

10:1 αμην 35* αμην αμην 35^c

10:16 35* εχω α ουκ εστιν 35^c

10:25 αυτοις αυτοις 35* αυτοις 35^c

12:2 om. 35* ην 35^c

16:17 om. 35* υπαγω 35^c

16:19 om. 35* ειπον 35^c

Sometimes scribe of 35 presented alternative to the running text. In four instances editors the text in the Byzantine Tradition followed alternative readings:

5:4 εταρασσε το 35* εταρασσετο το 35^c

14:3 ετοιμασω 35* ετοιμασαι 35^c

19:38 ο ιωσηφ 35* ιωσηφ 35^c

21:15 om. 35* ο ιησους 35^c

The text John 7:53-8:11 mared by obelus (÷).^[3]

History

Formerly it was held at the Athos peninsula in Great Lavra. Between 1643 and 1653 the manuscript was acquired for the collection of Pierre Séguier (1588-1672), the great-grandfather of Henri-Charles de Coislin, Bishop of Metz.^[4] It became part of the Fonds Coislin.

Bernard de Montfaucon was the first who described this manuscript. It was examined by Wettstein, Scholz, and Gregory (1885). The text of Revelation was collated by Hoskier (1929).

It is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Coislin, Gr. 199) at Paris.^[1]

See also

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

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. 48.
• 2. F. H. A. Scrivener, "A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament" (London 1894), vol. 1, p. 195.
• 3. C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 136-137.
• 4. "The Gospel According to John in the Byzantine Tradition". Introduction to the Printed Edition
• 5. 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.
• 6. "The Gospel According to John in the Byzantine Tradition", (Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 2007), Introduction, p. IV.
• 7. F. Wisse, The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1982, p. 92.

Further reading

• Bernard de Montfaucon, Bibliotheca Coisliniana olim Segueriana, Paris: Ludovicus Guerin & Carolus Robustel, 1715, p. 250.
• H. C. Hoskier, Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse 1 (London, 1929), pp. 32-33.

External Link

• Wikipedia Article on Minuscule 35