Minuscule 399
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Minuscule 399 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε94 (von Soden)), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 9th or 10th century.[1]
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Description
The codex contains text of the Gospels: John, Luke, and Matthew, on 214 parchment leaves (17.3 cm by 11.6 cm). Written in one column per page, in 27 lines per page.[1] Text is written in blach, initial letters in red ink. It contains prolegomena, lists of κεφαλαια, Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian tables, and commentary.[2]
Texts of John 5:3.4 and John 7:53-8:11 marked by an obelus.[2] The order of Gospels is the same as in codex 90.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[3] Its text is close to the textual family K1.
History
The manuscript was written by Prochorus, a scribe.[2] It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).[4]
The manuscript is currently housed at the National Library of Russia (Gr. 220) in Saint Petersburg.[1]
See also
References
- 1. Aland, K.; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 70. ISBN 3110119862.
- 2. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 186.
- 3. Aland, Kurt; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- 4. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. 1. London. p. 225.
Further reading
- Kurt Treu, Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan, T & U 90 (Berlin, 1966), pp. 88–90.
