Minuscule 715 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε364 ( 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. 178. is a

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of the

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, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. The manuscript has complex contents.Handschriftenliste
at the Münster Institute

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labelled it as 564^e. It has

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Description

The codex contains the text of the four

Gospel Gospel originally meant the Christianity, Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the second century Anno domino, AD the term (, from which the English word originated as a calque) came to be used also for the books in which the message w ...

s, on 176 parchment leaves (size ), and two unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and end. The text is written in two columns per page, 27-29 lines per page. The manuscript has ornamented headpieces, the large initial letters in red, the small initials in red. The manuscript contains Prolegomena, lists of the (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel. The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin of the text and their (''titles of chapters'') are given at the top. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 237 Sections, the last section in 16:15), which numbers are given at the margin, but without 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 ...

. It contains lectionary markings at the margin (added by a later hand), incipits,

Synaxarion Synaxarion or Synexarion (plurals Synaxaria, Synexaria; , from συνάγειν, ''synagein'', "to bring together"; cf. etymology of '' synaxis'' and ''synagogue''; Latin: ''Synaxarium'', ''Synexarium''; ; Ge'ez: ሲናክሳሪየም(ስንክ� ...

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, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, numbers of , and numbers of . It contains extracts from a commentary of

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and diagnosis of Hesychius (folios 175-176).Minuscule 715
at the ''British Library''

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the

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classified it to A^k, related to the Byzantine commentated text (along with

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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

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it represents textual family K^x in Luke 1 and Luke 10. In Luke 20 it has mixed Byzantine text. ; Textual variants The word before the bracket is the reading of the

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edition, the word after the bracket is the reading of the manuscript. The reading of

Textus Receptus The (Latin for 'received text') is the succession of printed Greek New Testament texts starting with Erasmus' ''Novum Instrumentum omne'' (1516) and including the editions of Robert Estienne, Stephanus, Theodore Beza, Beza, the House of Elzevir ...

in bold. : Mark 1:2 – καθως γεγραπται ] ως γεγραπται : Mark 1:2 – εν τω Ησαια τω προφητη ] εν τοις προφεταις : Mark 1:5 – παντες, και εβαπτιζοντο υπ αυτου εν τω Ιορδανη ποταμω ] και εβαπτιζοντο παντες εν τω Ιορδανη ποταμω υπ αυτου Minuscule 715 GA folio 55

History

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 13th century, Gregory dated it to the 13th or 14th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research, INTF to the 13th century. Note in Greek on folio 2 with date 25 August 1720. James Woodhouse († 1866), Treasurer-General of the

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. It was bought by

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, then belonged to W. F. Rose, and bought for the

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in 1893 (along with minuscule 714,

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). It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (564) and Gregory (715). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1883. The text was collated by Rose. The manuscript is now housed at the

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(Egerton MS 2785).

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at the ''British Library'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 715 Greek New Testament minuscules 13th-century biblical manuscripts Egerton Collection

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