Minuscule 2814

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Minuscule 2814 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), An²⁰ (Soden). Formerly it was labelled as 1^rK in all catalogs, but it was renumbered as a 2814 by Aland. It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 12th century.

Description

The codex contains the Book of Revelation with a commentary of Andreas from Caesarea. Last six verses lost (22:16-21). Written on a parchment in minuscule, in 1 column per page, 20 lines per page.

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

The codex is located now in Harburg (Öttingen-Wallersteinsche Bibl., I, 1, 4 (0), 1).<ref>K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994. </ref>

History of the codex

This codex was chiefly used by Desiderius Erasmus as a basis for his first edition of the Novum Testamentum (1516). It was only one manuscript of the Book of Revelation used by Erasmus.<ref>W.W. Combs, Erasmus and the textus receptus, DBSJ 1 (Spring 1996), 45. </ref> In result its readings became a basis for the Textus Receptus. Erasmus borrowed the manuscript from Reuchlin, but it was lost for many years until rediscovered in 1861 by F. Delitzsch.<ref>F. Delizsch, Handschriftliche Funde, Leipzig, 1861. </ref>

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Novum Instrumentum omne
• Textual criticism

References

Further reagings

• Georg Grupp, Oettingen-Wallerrsteinische Sammlungen in Maihingen, Handschriften-Verzeichnis I, Noerdlingen, 1897.

External links

• Minuscule 2814 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism