:Minuscule 831
{{New Testament manuscript infobox
| form = Minuscule
| number = 831
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| text = Gospels †
| script = Greek
| date = 11th century
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| now at = Biblioteca della Badia
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| size = {{×|19|13.5}}
| type = Byzantine text-type
| cat = V
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| note = —
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Minuscule 831 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε117 (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=139}}{{cite book|last=Gregory|first=Caspar René|author-link=Caspar René Gregory|title=Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament|url=https://archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n87/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=76}} is an 11th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment. The manuscript is lacunose.
Description
The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Luke (19:25-25:53) and Gospel of John, on 69 parchment leaves (size {{×|19|13.5}}). The text is written in one column per page, 23 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?ObjID=30831 |title=Liste Handschriften |publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research |access-date=23 January 2011 |location=Münster}}
The original codex contained text of the four Gospels.
The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (chapters), and according to the smaller Ammonian Sections. The numbers of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} are given at the left margin, but there are not {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (titles) at the top of the pages. The numbers of the Ammonian Sections are given at the margin, but there are no references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains the table of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (table of contents) before Gospel of John, lectionary markings at the margin (for church reading), incipits, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospels.{{Cite book
| last = Gregory
| first = Caspar René
| author-link = Caspar René Gregory
| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1
| publisher = Hinrichs
| year = 1900
| location = Leipzig
| page = 225
| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n237/mode/2up
| last = Scrivener
| first = Frederick Henry Ambrose
| author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
|author2=Edward Miller
| title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1
| publisher = George Bell & Sons
| year = 1894
| edition = 4
| location = London
| page = 264
}}
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx. 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 family Kx in Luke 20. In Luke 1 and Luke 10 the manuscript is defective, and textual profile in these chapters is not possible.{{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/66 66]
| url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/66
| 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
C. R. Gregory dated the manuscript to the 11th century, Scrivener to the 12th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 11th century.
The manuscript was examined and described by Antonio Rocci in 1882.Antonio Rocci, Codices cryptenses, seu Abbatiae Cryptae Ferratae in Tusculano digesti et illustrati (Tusculanum 1883). It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (629) and Gregory (831e). Gregory saw it in 1886.
Currently the manuscript is housed at the Biblioteca della Badia (A' α. 17), in Grottaferrata.
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{Cite book
| last = Gregory
| first = Caspar René
| author-link = Caspar René Gregory
| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments
| publisher = J.C. Hinrichs
| year = 1900
| location = Leipzig
| volume = 1
| page = 225
| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n237/mode/2up
}}
- Antonio Rocci, Codices cryptenses, seu Abbatiae Cryptae Ferratae in Tusculano digesti et illustrati (Tusculanum 1883).
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