Minuscule 70
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Minuscule 70 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 521 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it had been assigned to the 15th century.[1]
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Description
The codex contains complete text of the four Gospels on 186 leaves (size 28.5 cm by 17.7 cm). Written in one column per page, 23 lines per page.[2] Capital letters in colour. Like minuscule 62 it has the Latin chapters.[2] It contains τιτλοι and κεφαλαια. There are marginal corrections made by Budaeus. It has Latin chapters.[3]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[4]
Wisse in Luke 1 and Luke 20 assigned it to the textual family Kx. In Luke 10 he did not made profile method for it.[5]
History
The manuscript was written in Paris between 1491-1494 for Guillaume Budé by George Hermonymus (like codices 30 and 287).[6] It once belonged to Bunckle of London, then to Bp. Moore. It was examined by John Mill.[7][8]
It is currently housed in at the Cambridge University Library (Ll. 2.13), at Cambridge.[9]
See also
References
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ a b c C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 145.
- ^ a b F. H. A. Scrivener, "A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament" (London 1894), Vol. 1, p. 203.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Frederik Wisse, The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1982, p. 54.
