Minuscule 30 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 522 (
Von Soden)
is a
Greek
Greek may refer to:
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*Greeks, an ethnic group
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...
minuscule
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manuscript
A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand or typewritten, as opposed to mechanically printed or reproduced in some indirect or automated way. More recently, the term has ...
of the
New Testament
The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus in Christianity, Jesus, as well as events relating to Christianity in the 1st century, first-century Christianit ...
, written on 313 paper leaves.
Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 15th-century.
[ K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", '']Walter de Gruyter
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter (), is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature.
History
The roots of the company go back to 1749 when Frederick the Great granted the Königliche Realschule in Be ...
'', Berlin, New York 1994, p. 48. Formerly Colbertinus 4444. It has
marginalia
Marginalia (or apostils) are marks made in the margin (typography), margins of a book or other document. They may be scribbles, comments, gloss (annotation), glosses (annotations), critiques, doodles, drolleries, or illuminated manuscript, ...
.
Description
The codex contains a complete text of the four
Gospel
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s on 313 paper leaves (22.7 cm by 14.9 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 14 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin (in Greek and Latin) and their (''titles of chapters'') at the top of the pages. There is no another division according to the Ammonian Sections with references to the
Eusebian Canons
Eusebian canons, Eusebian sections or Eusebian apparatus, also known as Ammonian sections, are the system of dividing the four Gospels used between late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The divisions into Chapters and verses of the Bible, chapters ...
.
Scrivener
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suggested it was made by the same scribe (
George Hermonymus
George Hermonymus (; before 1435 – after 1503), also known as Hermonymus of Sparta, was a 15th-century Greek scribe, diplomat, scholar, and lecturer. He was the first person to teach Greek at the Collège de Sorbonne in Paris.
Life
Although he ...
), who copied
Minuscule 17 and
70, whose text it much resembles.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the
Byzantine text-type
In the textual criticism of the New Testament, the Byzantine text-type (also called Traditional Text, Ecclesiastical Text, Constantinopolitan Text, Antiocheian Text, or Syrian Text) is one of the main Textual criticism#New Testament, text types. ...
.
Aland placed it in
Category V.
According to the
Claremont Profile Method
The Claremont Profile Method is a method for classifying ancient manuscripts of the Bible. It was elaborated by Ernest Cadman Colwell and his students. Professor Frederik Wisse attempted to establish an accurate and rapid procedure for the classi ...
it represents the textual family
Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.
It belongs to the textual cluster
17 along with manuscripts
70,
120 120 may refer to:
*120 (number), the number
*AD 120, a year in the 2nd century AD
*120 BC, a year in the 2nd century BC
*120 film, a film format for still photography
* ''120'' (film), a 2008 film
*120 (MBTA bus), a Massachusettes Bay Transport Aut ...
,
287,
288
Year 288 ( CCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Maximian and Ianuarianus (or, less frequently, year 1041 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination ...
, and
880
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Year 880 ( DCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* Battle of Cephalonia: A Byzantine fleet, under Admiral Nasar, is sent by Emperor Basil I to the Ionian Isl ...
.
History
The manuscript is dated by the
INTF
The Institute for New Testament Textual Research ( — INTF) at the University of Münster, Westphalia, Germany, is to research the textual history of the New Testament and to reconstruct its Greek initial text on the basis of the entire manuscri ...
to the 15th-century.
The manuscript once belonged to J. B. Hantin, a French numismatic. Bishop Moore in 1706 took this manuscript from Hantin's library.
[ It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by J. J. Wettstein, who gave it the number 30.
It was examined and described by John Mill (Colbertinus 4 for Matthew), Scholz (1794-1852)][ and ]Paulin Martin
Jean-Pierre-Paulin MartinSometimes referred to as Jean P.P. Martin. (20 July 1840 at Lacam-d'Ourcet, Lot – 14 January 1890 at Amélie-les-Bains, Pyrénées-Orientales), often referred to as Abbé Paulin Martin, or simply Abbé Martin or ...
.[ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, ''Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris'' (Paris 1883), p. 41] Scholz found that its text much resembles minuscule 17. C. R. Gregory
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* Letter C, the third letter in the alphabet.
* Cent (currency), abbreviated ''c.'' or ''¢'', a monetary unit that equals of the basic unit of man ...
saw the manuscript in 1884.[
It is currently housed at the ]Bibliothèque nationale de France
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(Gr. 100) in Paris
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.
See also
* List of New Testament minuscules
The list of New_Testament_minuscule, New Testament Minuscules ordered by Gregory–Aland index number is divided into three sections:
* List of New Testament minuscules (1–1000)
* List of New Testament minuscules (1001–2000)
* List of New Test ...
* Biblical manuscripts
* Textual criticism
Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts (mss) or of printed books. Such texts may rang ...
References
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Greek New Testament minuscules
15th-century biblical manuscripts
Bibliothèque nationale de France collections