Minuscule 743 (Gregory-Aland)

Minuscule 743

New Testament manuscript

Text Gospel of John, 1-3 Epistles of John, Revelation of John
Date 14th century
Script Greek
Now at Bibliothèque nationale de France
Size 39.7 cm by 27.7 cm
Type ?
Category none
Note commentary

Minuscule 743 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α1401 Aν414Nι40 (von Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament written on paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century. The manuscript has no complex contents.[2][3] Scrivener labelled it as 738e.[4]

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of John, 1-3 Epistles of John, Revelation of John on 401 paper leaves (size 39.7 cm by 27.7 cm),[2] with one lacuna (John 21:22-25). According to Gregory it has 406 leaves.[5]

The text is written in one column per page, 35 lines per page.[2] The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, with their τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages.[5]

It contains lists of the κεφαλαια (lists of contents) before each Gospel,[5] and lectionary markings at the margin.[4]

Gospel of John has a commentary of Nicetas, Revelation of John has a commentary of Andreas. Epistles of John are without a commentary.[5]

Text

Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.[6]

In John 2:1 it reads τριτη ημερα (third day) for ημερα τη τριτη (the third day); the reading is supported by manuscripts: Codex Vaticanus, Codex Nanianus, Koridethi, manuscripts of Ferrar Family, minuscule 196.[7][8]

In John 4:51 it reads υιος (son) for παις (servant), the reading of the codex is supported by Codex Bezae, Codex Cyprius, Codex Petropolitanus Purpureus, Nanianus, Codex Petropolitanus, 0141, 33, 194, 196, 817, 892, 1192, 1216, 1241.[9]

History

F. H. A. Scrivener - followed Martin - dated the manuscript to the 13th century; Gregory dated it to the 14th century.[5] The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 14th century.[3]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (738) and Gregory (743). It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.[10] Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.[5]

Herman C. Hoskier collated text of the Apocalypse.[11] It was examined by J. Schmid.

The manuscript is now housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Suppl. Gr. 159, fol. 2-7.12-406) in Paris.[2][3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 74.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 91. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  3. 1 2 3 Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
  4. 1 2 Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 269.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 218.
  6. ↑ 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. pp. 133, 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  7. ↑ The Gospel According to John in the Byzantine Tradition (Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft: Stuttgart 2007), p. 13
  8. ↑ NA26, p. 251
  9. ↑ The Gospel According to John in the Byzantine Tradition (Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft: Stuttgart 2007), p. 42
  10. ↑ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au N. T., conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 88
  11. ↑ H. C. Hoskier, Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse: Collation of All Existing Available Greek Documents with the Standard Text of Stephen’s Third Edition Together with the Testimony of Versions, Commentaries and Fathers. 1 vol. (London: Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., 1929), p. 423

Further reading

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