Minuscule 744 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θε22 (von Soden),[1][2] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament written on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. The manuscript has no complex contents.[3][4] Scrivener labelled it as 759e.[5]

Minuscule 744
New Testament manuscript
TextGospels
Date13th century
ScriptGreek
Now atBibliothèque nationale de France
Size28.8 cm by 21 cm
Type?
Categorynone
Notecommentary

Description

edit

The codex contains the four Gospels on 367 parchment leaves (size 28.8 cm by 21 cm),[3] with one lacuna. Matthew 1:1-3:6 was added later.[6]

The text is written in one 27-line column per page.[3]

It contains tables of the κεφαλαια to Matthew (added later),[6] the τιτλοι (titles) in Matthew, and portrait of Evangelist Luke.[5]

It has a commentary of Theophylact.[6]

Text

edit

Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.[7]

It was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method.[8]

History

edit

Bernard de Montfaucon and Henri Omont dated the manuscript to the 11th century; Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 15th or 16th century; Gregory dated it to the 13th century.[6] The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 13th century.[4]

The manuscript once belonged to the monastery of the St. Justina in Padua (as Minuscule 367).[6]

The manuscript was examined by Bernard de Montfaucon,[9] Paulin Martin,[10] and Henri Omont.[6]

It joined the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (759) and Gregory (744). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.[6]

The manuscript is now at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Supplément Gr. 219) in Paris.[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. 262.
  2. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 74.
  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. 91. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  4. ^ a b c Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
  5. ^ a b Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 270.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 218.
  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. 133, 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.
  9. ^ Bernard de Montfaucon, Diarium italicum, p. 78
  10. ^ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au N.T., conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 99

Further reading

edit