Minuscule 706 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε347 (von Soden),[1][2] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. The manuscript has complex contents.[3][4] Scrivener labelled it by 486e.[5]

Minuscule 706
New Testament manuscript
TextGospels
Date13th century
ScriptGreek
Now atBodleian Library
Size19 cm by 13.5 cm
TypeByzantine text-type/mixed
Categorynone

Description edit

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 213 parchment leaves (size 19 cm by 13.5 cm).[3][6]

The text is written in one column per page, 27 lines per page.[3]

It contains list of the κεφαλαια before Gospel of Luke, but it was added by a later hand. The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections, except the end of the Gospel of Mark. There is not a references to the Eusebian Canons. It contains lectionary markings, αναγνωσεις (lessons), subscriptions (except Luke), and στιχοι.[6][5]

According to Scrivener it has "a very unusual style".[5]

Text edit

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Kurt Aland did not place it in any Category.[7]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents mixed Byzantine text, related to the textual family Πb in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.[8]

History edit

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 12th or 13th century, Gregory dated it to the 13th century.[6] Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 13th century.[4]

It was added to the list of New Testament manuscript by Scrivener (486) and Gregory (706). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1883.[6]

Actually the manuscript is housed at the Bodleian Library (MS. Auct. T. 5. 34) in Oxford.[3][4]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 177.
  2. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 73.
  3. ^ a b c d Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 89. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  4. ^ a b c Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
  5. ^ a b c Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1 (fourth ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 245.
  6. ^ a b c d Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 214.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ^ Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. pp. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  8. ^ Wisse, Frederik (1982). The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 65. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.

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