Minuscule 104

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Minuscule 104 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 103 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it had been assigned to the 12th century.^[1]

Formerly it was labelled by 25^a, 31^p, and 7^r.^[2][3]

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

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the Acts, Pauline epistles, and the Book of Revelation on 286 parchment leaves (size 11.7 cm by 9.4 cm), with only one lacunae (1 John 5:14- 2 John 5). Written in one column per page, in 23 lines per page. According to the colophon it was written in 1087.^[3] Headpieces with geometric decorations. Initials in red. It contains prolegomena, tables of κεφαλαια, subscriptions, στιχοι.^[4]

Ending of the Epistle to the Romans has the order of verses: 16:23; 16:25-27; 16:24 (as in codices P 33 256 263 365 436 459 1319 1573 1852 arm).^[5]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a eclectic, in the Epistles it is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type and the Byzantine elsewhere. Aland placed it in Category III in epistles, and in Category V in the Acts and Book of Revelation.^[6]

In 1 John 5:6 it has textual variant δι' ὕδατος καὶ αἵματος καὶ πνεύματος (through water and blood and spirit) together with the manuscripts: Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Alexandrinus 424^c, 614, 1739^c, 2412, 2495, ℓ 598^m, syr^h, cop^sa, cop^bo, Origen.^[7][8] Bart D. Ehrman identified this reading as Orthodox corrupt reading.^[9]

History

The manuscript was written by scribe named Ioannes Tzoutzounas. It was held in Asia Minor.^[10] The manuscript was purchased by John Covel, chaplain of the Levant Company at Constantinople 1670-1676.

It was examined by Mill, Griesbach, Bloomfield, and Scrivener.^[10]

It was cited in 27 edition of Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece only once (1 Cor 11:24).^[11]

It is currently housed at the British Library (Harley 5537), at London.^[12]

See also

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

References

  1. ^ a b c K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 52.
  2. ^ a b Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 265. 
  3. ^ a b Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 286. 
  4. ^ UBS3, p. 576.
  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. 129.
  6. ^ UBS3, p. 823.
  7. ^ For another variants of this verse see: Textual variants in the First Epistle of John.
  8. ^ Bart D. Ehrman, The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1993, p. 60.
  9. ^ Frederic G. Kenyon, "Handbook to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament", London2, 1912, p. 134.
 10. ^ Kurt Aland, "Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum. Locis parallelis evangeliorum apocryphorum et patrum adhibitis edidit", Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1996, p. XXVII.

Further reading

• Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener, An Exact Transcript of the Codex Augiensis (Cambridge and London, 1859), pp. LXXVI-LXXVII. (as l)
• Henri Omont, Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum, Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes, 45 (1884), 314-50 (p. 343).

External links

• Harley 5537 at the British Library
• Minuscule 104 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism