Minuscule 692 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), ε1284 (
von Soden),
Hermann von Soden
Baron Hermann von Soden (16 August 1852 – 15 January 1914) was a German Biblical scholar, minister, professor of divinity, and textual theorist.
Life
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 16, 1852, Soden was educated at the University of Tübinge ...
, ''Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte'' (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 167. is a
Greek
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minuscule
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manuscript
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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 ...
, on parchment.
Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. The manuscript is lacunose.
[Handschriftenliste]
at the Münster Institute Scrivener
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labelled it by 596
e.
Description
The codex contains the text of the
Gospel of Matthew
The Gospel of Matthew is the first book of the New Testament of the Bible and one of the three synoptic Gospels. It tells the story of who the author believes is Israel's messiah (Christ (title), Christ), Jesus, resurrection of Jesus, his res ...
,
Gospel of Mark
The Gospel of Mark is the second of the four canonical Gospels and one of the three synoptic Gospels, synoptic Gospels. It tells of the ministry of Jesus from baptism of Jesus, his baptism by John the Baptist to his death, the Burial of Jesus, ...
, and
Gospel of Luke
The Gospel of Luke is the third of the New Testament's four canonical Gospels. It tells of the origins, Nativity of Jesus, birth, Ministry of Jesus, ministry, Crucifixion of Jesus, death, Resurrection of Jesus, resurrection, and Ascension of ...
on 237 parchment leaves (size ),
[ with lacuna (Luke 2:7-21). The text is written in one column per page, 23 lines per page.]
It contains Prolegomena, the tables of the (''contents'') are placed before each Gospel, numbers of the (''chapters'') are given at the left margin, the (''titles''), Ammonian Sections (241 sections, the last section in 16:20), a 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 ...
(in blue), and illuminated headings to the Gospels.[
According to Scrivener it is "exquisitely written", with great resemble to Minuscule 71 in text.][ Edward A. Guy recognised this resemblance as the first.][
]
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. ...
. Kurt Aland
Kurt Aland (28 March 1915 – 13 April 1994) was a German theologian and Biblical studies, biblical scholar who specialized in New Testament textual criticism. He founded the ''Institute for New Testament Textual Research, Institut für neutest ...
placed it in Category V.
According to the Claremont Profile Method
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it represents textual cluster M 27.
History
Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 14th century, Gregory dated it to the 12th or 13th century.[ Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 12th century.]
The manuscript was bought from Spyridion Lambros from Athens in 1859, along with 22 other manuscripts of the New Testament (codices: 269, 270, 271, 272, 688
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Year 688 (Roman numerals, DCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 688 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevale ...
, 689, 690, 691, 693, etc.).[
It was added to the list of New Testament manuscript by Scrivener (596) and Gregory (692).][
It was examined by S. T. Bloomfield and Dean Burgon. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1883.][
The manuscript is currently housed at the ]British Library
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(Add MS 22740) in London
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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 manuscript
A biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. Biblical manuscripts vary in size from tiny scrolls containing individual verses of the Jewish scriptures (see '' Tefillin'') to huge polyglot codices (multi- ...
* 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
* S. T. Bloomfield
''Critical Annotations: Additional and Supplementary on the New Testament''
(1860).
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Greek New Testament minuscules
12th-century biblical manuscripts
British Library additional manuscripts