Minuscule 652

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Minuscule 652 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1095 (von Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 10th century. The manuscript has complex contents.^[2] Scrivener labelled it by 875.^[3]

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 305 parchment leaves (size ). It is written in one column per page, 20 lines per page.^[2]

It contains Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian tables, the tables of the κεφαλαια{{#if:|

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}} (tables of contents), numerals of the κεφαλαια (chapters) at the margin, the τιτλοι (titles), Ammonian Sections (Mark 234, – 16:9), the Eusebian Canons, (lectionary markings, incipits), Synaxarion, Menologion, subscriptions, and pictures.^[4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it as Kappa text. It was not confirmed by Kurt Aland, who did not place it in any Category.^[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Π^a in Luke 1, and K^x in Luke 10 and Luke 20.^[6]

Silva Lake discovered that in Mark 4:20-6:24 it represents text of the Family 1.^[7]

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}} (sins of every one of them).^[4] This textual variant have Codex Nanianus, Minuscule 73, 95, 331, 364, 700, 782, 1592 and some Armenian manuscripts. Minuscule 264 has this textual variant in John 8:6.^[8]

History

Gregory dated the manuscript to the 10th or 11th century.^[4] Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 10th century.^[9]

The manuscript belonged to Otto of Greece and was brought to Germany in 1879.^[4]

Gregory saw the manuscript in 1887.^[4]

The manuscript currently is housed at the Bavarian State Library (Gr. 594), at Munchen.^[2][9]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

• 1. Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 71.
• 2. K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 85.
• 3. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 275.
• 4. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 209.
• 5. 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. 133, 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
• 6. Wisse, Frederik (1982). The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 64. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
• 7. Studies and Documents, Vol. V (London 1936), pp. 33 ff.
• 8. NA26, pp. 273, 274
• 9. Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute

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