Minuscule 61

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Minuscule 61 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering; Soden's δ 603), known as Codex Montfortianus, Erasmus named it Codex Britannicus, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on paper. Dated to the early 16th century, though a 15th century date is possible on paleographic grounds.[1]

Contents

Description

Written in one column per page, 21 lines per page, on 455 paper leaves (15.8 by 12 cm).[2]

The codex contains the entire of the New Testament. It contains prolegomena, tables of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, the Ammonian Sections, Eusebian Canons, subscriptions, and στιχοι. The titles of the sacred books were written in red ink.[3]

Text

The Greek text of the Gospels and Acts of this codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type, Aland placed it n Category V. In Pauline epistles and Catholic epistles its text is mixed. Aland placed it in Category III.[4] In the Book of Revelation its text belongs to the Byzantine text-type but with a large number of unique textual variants, in a close relationship to the Uncial 046, and Minuscule 69.[5] In the Gospels close to the manuscripts 56, 58.

In 1 John 5:6 it has textual variant δι' ὕδατος καὶ αἵματος καὶ πνεύματος ἁγίου (through water and blood and the Holy Spirit) together with the manuscripts: 39, 326, 1837.[6][a] Bart D. Ehrman identified this reading as Orthodox corrupt reading.[7]

It contains the Comma Johanneum as an integral part of the text. An engraved facsimile of the relevant page can be seen in Thomas H. Horne, An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures (London: Cadell and Davies, 1818), vol. 2.2, p. 118.

History

It was the first Greek manuscript discovered that contains the Comma Johanneum in 1 John 5:7-8. It was copied from a 10th century manuscript at Lincoln College, Oxford, that did not have the Comma. Comma was inserted from the Latin.[8] Its earliest known owner was Froy, a Franciscan friar, then Thomas Clement (1569), then William Chark (1582), then Thomas Montfort, from whom it derives its present name, then Archbishop Ussher, who caused the collation to be made which appears in Walton's Polyglott (Matthew 1:1; Acts 22:29; Romans 1), and presented the manuscript to Trinity College.[9][1]

This codex was used by Erasmus in his third edition of Novum Testamentum (1522).[1] Erasmus misprinted εμαις for εν αις in Apocalypse 2:13.[1]

The codex now is located at the Trinity College (Ms. 30) at Dublin.[2]

See also

Notes

  • a. For the another variants of this verse see: Textual variants in the First Epistle of John.

References

  • 1. F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament (George Bell & Sons: London, 1894), vol. 1, p. 200.
  • 2. K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 50.
  • 3. C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 143.
  • 4. 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, (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995), p. 129.
  • 5. Bruce M. Metzger, Bart D. Ehrman, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration, (Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 86.
  • 6. UBS3, p. 823.
  • 7. Bart D. Ehrman, The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1993, p. 60.
  • 8. Bruce M. Metzger, Bart D. Ehrman, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration, (Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 88, 147.
  • 9. S. P. Tregelles, "An Introduction to the Critical study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures", London 1856, p. 213-14.


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