Minuscule 65

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Minuscule 65 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 135 (von Soden), formerly known as Ussher 2, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it had been assigned to the 11th century.^[1]

Contents 1 Description 2 Text 3 History 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 309 leaves (size 22.8 cm by 17.8 cm). Written stichometrically in one column per page, 22 lines per page.^[1][2] John 5:3.4 is marked by obelus.^[2] It contains Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian tables, tables of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, the Ammonian Sections (Matthew 355, Mark 234, Luke 342, John 232), Eusebian Canons στιχοι, and subscriptions.^[2][3] The last verse in Gospel of John was supplied by a later hand.^[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[4] It is a member of the textual family E (Soden's Kⁱ).

History

In 1674 archbishop of Proconesus presented this manuscript to John Covel (1637-1722), british chaplain in Constantinople, and in 1677 it came to England.^[5] The manuscript was examined by Mill and Griesbach.^[2] Griesbach gave for it number 167 on his list.

It is currently housed at the British Library as a part of the Harleian Collection (5776), at London.^[1]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism
• Codex Ussher 1

References

• 1. K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 50.
• 2. C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 144.
• 3. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. 1. London

George Bell & Sons. p. 202.

• 4. Kurt Aland, and Barbara Aland, "The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism", transl. Erroll F. Rhodes, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995, p. 138.
• 5. Michaelis, Introduction to the New Testament (London 1823), p. 735.

Further reading

• Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 116.
• See bibliography to Family E

External links

• Codex Harleianus 5776 at the British Library
• Wikipedia Article on Minuscule 65