Minuscule 2816

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Minuscule 2816 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering). Formerly was labelled as 4^ap in all catalogs, but it was renumbered by Aland. It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, paleographically had been assigned to the 15th century.<ref name = Aland/>

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the Acts of the Apostles, Pauline epistles, and General epistles (the Pauline epistles preceeding the General), on 287 parchment leaves (15.4 by 11 cm) in elegant minuscule. Written in one column per page, 17-19 lines per page.<ref>Kurt Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 212. </ref> Elegantly but hardly written by several scribes, and full of contractions.<ref name = Scrivener>Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, (George Bell & Sons:London 1894), vol. 1, p. 284. </ref>

The order of books; Acts of the Apostles, Pauline epistles, and Catholic epistles.<ref name = Gregory>C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 263. </ref>

The Greek text of the Gospels is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.

History of the codex

This codex was used by Desiderius Erasmus in his edition of the Novum Testamentum (1516). Sometimes he used some of its marginal readings instead of main text readings (e.g. Acts 8:37; 15:34; 24:6-8).<ref name = Scrivener/> In result some of its readings became a part of the Textus Receptus.

It was examined by Battier, Wettstein.<ref name = Scrivener/>

Currently the codex is located at the University of Basel (Cod. A.N.IV.5), at Basel.<ref name = Aland/>

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Textual criticism

References

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Further reagings

• Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte, Verlag von Arthur Glaue, Berlin 1902-1910.
• C. C. Tarelli, Erasmus’s Manuscripts of the Gospels, JTS XLIV (1943), 155-162.