Minuscule 666
| New Testament manuscript | |
| Text | Gospels † |
|---|---|
| Date | 13th century |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | Harvard University Library |
| Size | 22 cm by 15 cm |
| Type | Byzantine text-type |
| Category | V |
Minuscule 666 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1293 (von Soden),[1][2] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. The manuscript is lacunose.[3][4] Scrivener labelled it by 899e.[5]
Description[edit]
The codex contains the entire of the four Gospels, on 298 parchment leaves (size 22 cm by 15 cm) with some lacunae.[3] The text of John 3:4-18; 5:12-6:7; 7:2-21:25.[1][6]
The text is written in one column per page, 23-24 lines per page.[3][6]
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, with τιτλοι (titles) at the top. There are the Ammonian Sections are given at the margin to the Gospel of Matthew, but only from number α' to number κβ'.[6]
It contains Prolegomena, lists of the κεφαλαια are placed before each of the Gospels, portrait of Evangelists before every Gospel. Lectionary markings and subscriptions to the Gospel of John were added by a later hand.[6]
Text[edit]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.[7]
According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family Kx in Luke 1; 10; 20.[8]
History[edit]
Gregory dated the manuscript to the 12th or 13th century.[6] Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 13th century.[4]
The manuscript came to USA from Albania.[6][1]
Gregory saw the manuscript in 1889.[6]
Currently the manuscript is housed at the Harvard University Library (Ms. Gr. 1), in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[3][4]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 167
- ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 71.
- ^ a b c d Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 86. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
- ^ a b c Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
- ^ 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. 276.
- ^ a b c d e f g Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 210.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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. 64. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
Further reading[edit]
- E. J. Goodspied, The Harvard Gospels, AJT X (1906), 687-700
- E. J. Goodspied, The Harvard Gospels, HLS 6 (1919), 171-86 and plate 1
- K. W. Clark, A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America (Chicago, 1937), pp. 107–109