:Minuscule 1356

{{Short description|11th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament}}

{{New Testament manuscript infobox

| form = Minuscule

| number = 1356

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| text = Gospels

| script = Greek

| date = 11th century

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| now at = Walters Art Museum

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| size = {{×|34.5|24.5}}

| type = Byzantine text-type

| cat = V

| hand =

| note = marginalia

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Minuscule 1356 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε1087 (von Soden),{{Cite book|last=Soden, von|first=Hermann|author-link=Hermann, Freiherr von Soden|title=Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte|volume=1|year=1902|publisher=Verlag von Alexander Duncker|location=Berlin|page=137}} is an 11th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment. The manuscript has complex contents.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 303 parchment leaves (size {{×|34.5|24.5}}). The Gospels are placed in the order: Matthew, Luke, Mark and John.{{Cite book

| last = Clark

| first = Kenneth W.

| title = A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America

| year = 1937

| location = Chicago

| volume = 1

| pages = 363–364

}}

The same order has Minuscule 392 and 498.

The text is written in two columns per page, 22 lines per page.{{Cite book

| last = Aland

| first = Kurt

| author-link = Kurt Aland

|author2=M. Welte |author3=B. Köster |author4=K. Junack

| title = Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments

| publisher = Walter de Gruyter

| year = 1994

| location = Berlin, New York

| page = 95

| isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}{{Cite web | url = http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php | title = Liste Handschriften | publisher = Institute for New Testament Textual Research | access-date = 23 January 2011 | location = Münster}}

The large initial letters are in red. The manuscripts is ornamented. It contains miniatures of the four Apostles.{{r|Clark1}}

The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (titles) at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 241 sections, the last numbered section in 16:20), whose numbers are given at the margin with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).{{Cite book

| last = Gregory

| first = Caspar René

| author-link = Caspar René Gregory

| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments

| publisher = Hinrichs

| year = 1900

| location = Leipzig

| volume = 1

| page = 1141

}}

It contains many notes made by later hand.

It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum at the beginning, Eusebian Canon tables, Prolegomena, tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (tables of contents) before each Gospel. It contains subscriptions at the end of each Gospel with numbers of verses and numbers of {{lang|grc|στιχοι}}.{{Cite book

| last = Gregory

| first = Caspar René

| author-link = Caspar René Gregory

| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments

| publisher = Hinrichs

| year = 1900

| location = Leipzig

| volume = 1

| page = 257

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n269/mode/2up

}}

According to Hermann von Soden it contains also lectionary markings (for church readings) at the margin and pictures.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K^x. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.{{Cite book

| last = Aland

| first = Kurt

| author-link = Kurt Aland

| last2 = Aland

| first2 = Barbara

| author-link2 = Barbara Aland

| others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.)

| title = The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism

| publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

| year = 1995

| location = Grand Rapids

| page = 139

| isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual cluster M 106 in Luke 1 and Luke 20, but it is very weak member of this cluster in Luke 1. In Luke 10 no profile was made.{{Cite book

| last = Wisse

| first = Frederik

| title = The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke

| publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

| year = 1982

| location = Grand Rapids

| page = [https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/76 76]

| url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/76

| isbn = 0-8028-1918-4

| url-access = registration

}}

The Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is placed at the end of the Gospel of John.

History

Gregory dated the manuscript to the 12 or 13th century, other palaeographers dated it to the 10th or 11th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 11th century.

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory (1356^e). Gregory saw it in 1906. The manuscript was first described by Athanasios Papadopoulos-Kerameus in 1897.{{Cite book

| last = Clark

| first = Kenneth W.

| title = A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America

| year = 1937

| location = Chicago

| volume = 1

| page = 365

}}

It was examined and described by Kenneth Willis Clark in 1937.{{Cite book

| last = Clark

| first = Kenneth W.

| title = A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America

| year = 1937

| location = Chicago

| volume = 1

| pages = 363–365

}}

Formerly the manuscript was housed in Jerusalem (Anastaseos 7). Then it was brought to United States. Currently the manuscript is housed at the Walters Art Museum (Ms. W. 532), in Baltimore.{{r|Aland|INTF}}

:Minuscule 1356

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