Minuscule 589

Minuscule 589

New Testament manuscript

Text Gospel of Luke, Gospel of John †
Date 14th century
Script Greek
Now at Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Size 32 cm by 22.5 cm
Type ?
Category none

Minuscule 589 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θ ε 401 (von Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment and paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century.[2] The manuscript is lacunose. It was labelled by Scrivener as 830.[3]

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Luke and Gospel of John on 120 parchment and paper leaves (size 32 cm by 22.5 cm) with some lacuna (Luke 6:46-17:25; 21:28-22:58; John 1:14-8:20). The text is written in two columns per page, 38-44 lines per page.[2] It contains a commentary.[4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex Aland did not place in any Category V.[5] The text of the manuscript was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method.[6] In result the textual character of the codex is still unknown.

History

The manuscript was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by C. R. Gregory, who saw it in 1886.[4]

The manuscript currently is housed at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (A. 178 sup.), at Milan.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 68.
  2. 1 2 3 K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 81.
  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. 274.
  4. 1 2 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 206.
  5. ↑ Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 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. 63. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.

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