Minuscule 319 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), α 256 (
Soden),
is a
Greek minuscule 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
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, on parchment.
Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.
Formerly it was labelled by 24
a and 29
p.
Description
The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles
The Acts of the Apostles (, ''Práxeis Apostólōn''; ) is the fifth book of the New Testament; it tells of the founding of the Christian Church and the spread of The gospel, its message to the Roman Empire.
Acts and the Gospel of Luke make u ...
, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 303 parchment leaves () with lacunae (Acts 1:1-11; 18:20-20:14; James 5:14—1 Peter 1:4). Some other lacunae were supplied by modern hand. [
The text is written in one column per page, biblical text in 22 lines per page.][
]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.
History
Thomas Gale collated the manuscript for Mill (Cant. 2). It was examined Bentley
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, and John Wigley. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.[ Formerly it was labelled by 24a and 29p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 319 to it.][
The manuscript is currently housed at the Christ's College, Cambridge (GG. 1.9 (Ms. 9)) at ]Cambridge
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.[
]
See also
* List of New Testament minuscules
* Biblical manuscript
* 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
Further reading
* F. H. A. Scrivener, ''An Exact Transcript of the Codex Augiensis'' (Cambridge and London, 1859), pp. 64-66.
External links
Images from Minuscule 319
at the ''CSNTM''
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Greek New Testament minuscules
12th-century biblical manuscripts