Minuscule 40
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Minuscule 40 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A155 (Von Soden). It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on vellum. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 11th century.[1]
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Description
The codex contains almost complete text of the four Gospels on 312 parchment leaves (30 cm by 22 cm) with only two lacunae (Luke 21:21-23:32; John 20:25-21:25). Written in 1 column per page (11.9 by 10.7 cm), biblical text in 18 lines per page, commentary in 48 lines per page (24.6 by 17.4 cm).[2] It contains Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian tables, prolegomena, tabbles of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections (Mark 233), Eusebian Canons, and a commentary (Victor's in Mark).[3]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[4]
History
Formerly it belonged to the Stavronikita monastery on the Athos (as codex 34).[2] It was examined by Wettstein and Scholz.[2]
It is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Coislin Gr. 22) at Paris.[1]
See also
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. 49.
- 2. C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 138.
- 3. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 196.
- 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", transl. Erroll F. Rhodes, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995, p. 138.
Works
- Bernard de Montfaucon, Bibliotheca Coisliniana olim Segueriana, Paris: Ludovicus Guerin & Carolus Robustel, 1715, p. 66.
