Minuscule 440
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Minuscule 440 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 260 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 12th century.[1]
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Description
The codex contains a complete text of the New Testament except Book of Revelation on 294 parchment leaves (19 cm by 14 cm) with only one lacunae. Written in one column per page, in 28-30 lines per page.[1] It contains the Eusebian tables, κεφαλαια, pictures, τιτλοι, lectionary equipment, the Ammonian Sections, Prolegomena to Catholic and Pauline epistles, and subscriptions in Paul.[2] Synaxarion, Menologion were added by a later hand.[3]
The order of books: Gospels, Acts, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles.[3]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a mixture of text-types. In Book of Acts it is a representative of the Western text-type.[4]
History
The manuscript once belonged to Bishop Moore (together with the codex 60), who gave it in 1715 to the library.[3] It was examined by Bentley, Mill, and Griesbach. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).[5]
It is currently housed at the Cambridge University Library (Mm. 6.9) in Cambridge.[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. 73. ISBN 3110119862.
- 2. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894 (2005 reprint)). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. 1. London. p. 239.
- 3. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 190.
- 4. David Alan Black, New Testament Textual Criticism, Baker Books, 2006, p. 65.
- 5. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894 (reprint 2005)). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. 1. London. p. 225.
Further reading
- F. H. A. Scrivener, An Exact Transcript of the Codex Augiensis (Cambridge and London, 1859), pp. 35-38.
