Editing Minuscule 88

'''Minuscule 88''' (in the [[Biblical manuscript#Gregory-Aland|Gregory-Aland]] numbering) α 200 (von Soden), is a [[Greek language|Greek]] [[Lower case|minuscule]] [[manuscript]] of the [[New Testament]], on parchment leaves. [[Palaeography|Palaeographically]] it had been assigned to the 12th century.<sup>[1]</sup> 

Formerly it was labelled by 83<sup>a</sup>, 93<sup>p</sup>, and 99<sup>r</sup>.<sup>[2]</sup>
== Description ==

The codex contains the text of the [[Acts of the Apostles]], [[Catholic epistles]], [[Pauline epistles]], and the [[Book of Revelation]], on 123 parchment leaves (size {{×|26.5|18.6}}). Written in two columns per page, 37 lines per page.<sup>[1]</sup> It contains prolegomena, tables of κεφαλαια, [[Stichometry|στιχοι]] (sometimes in the margin), and [[Comma Johanneum]] at the margin added in the 16th century.<sup>[3]</sup>

The section 1 Cor 14:34-35 is placed after 1 Cor 14:40, just like other manuscripts of the Western text-type ([[Codex Claromontanus|Claromontanus]], [[Codex Augiensis|Augiensis]], [[Codex Boernerianus|Boernerianus]], it<sup>d, g</sup>, and some manuscripts of [[Vulgate]]).<sup>[4]</sup><sup>[5]</sup>

== Text ==

The Greek text of the codex [[Kurt Aland|Aland]] placed in [[Categories of New Testament manuscripts#Category III|Category III]].<sup>[6]</sup>

In 1 John 5:6 it has textual variant δι' ὕδατος καὶ πνεύματος καὶ αἵματος (''through water and spirit and blood'') together with the manuscripts: [[Codex Porphyrianus]], [[Minuscule 81|81]], [[Minuscule 442|442]], [[Minuscule 630|630]], 915, 2492, arm, eth<sup>[7]</sup><sup>[a]</sup> [[Bart D. Ehrman]] identified it as Orthodox corrupt reading.<sup>[8]</sup> It contains the [[Comma Johanneum]] added by a later hand on a margin.<sup>[9]</sup>

== History ==

The manuscript was written by Evagrius and compared with [[Pamphilus of Caesarea|Pamphilus]] copy at Caesarea.<sup>[2]</sup> It was examined by [[Andrew Birch|Birch]], [[Johann Martin Augustin Scholz|Scholz]].<sup>[3]</sup>

It is currently housed in at the [[Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III]] (Ms. II. A.7), at [[Naples]].<sup>[1]</sup>

== See also ==

* [[List of New Testament minuscules]]
* [[Biblical manuscript]]
* [[Textual criticism]]

== Notes ==

*  a. For another variants of this verse see: Textual variants in the First Epistle of John.

== References ==

*   1. [[Kurt Aland|K. Aland]], M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 51.
*   2. [[Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener|Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose]]; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 291. 
*   3. [[Caspar René Gregory|Gregory, Caspar René]] (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 271. 
*   4. NA26, p. 466.
*   5. [[Bruce Metzger|Bruce M. Metzger]], A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (Deutsche Biblegesellschaft: Stuttgart, 2001), pp. 499-500.
*   6. [[Kurt Aland|Aland, Kurt]]; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: [[William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company]]. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
*   7. UBS3, p. 823.
*   8. [[Bart Ehrman| Bart D. Ehrman]], The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1993, p. 60.
*   9. [[Bruce Metzger|Bruce M. Metzger]], The Text of the New Testament (Oxford 2005), p. 147.

== Further reading ==

* Ernst von Dobschütz, "A hitherto unpublished Prologue to the Acts of the Apostles", ''[[American Journal of Philology|AJT]]'' 2 (Baltimore, 1898), pp. 353-387. 
* H. S. Murphy, "On the Text of Codices H and 93", ''[[Journal of Biblical Literature|JBL]]'' 78 (Philadelphia, 1959), pp. 228-237. 

== External links ==

* [http://www.linguistsoftware.com/Payne1998NTSMS88.pdf Philip B. Payne, ''MS. 88 as Evidence for a Text without 1 Cor 14.34-5'', New Testament Studies, vol 44 (1998), pp. 152-158.]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuscule_88 Wikipedia Article on Minuscule 88]
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