:Minuscule 918

{{New Testament manuscript infobox

| form = Minuscule

| number = 918

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| name = Cod. Escurialensis, Σ. I. 5

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| text = Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles

| script = Greek

| date = 16th-century

| found =

| now at = Escorial

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| size = {{×|34.5|23.5}}

| type = mixed, Byzantine text-type

| cat = III, V

| hand =

| note = marginalia

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Minuscule 918 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), O ⁶⁶ (von Soden),{{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/n89/mode/2up | year = 1908 | publisher = J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung | location = Leipzig |page=79}} is a 16th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on paper, with a commentary. The manuscript is famous for the Comma Johanneum.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Catholic and Pauline epistles on 397 paper leaves (size {{×|34.5|23.5}}). The text is written in one column per page, 28 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 = 101

| isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}{{Cite web | url = http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/en_GB/liste/?ObjID=30918 | title = Liste Handschriften | publisher = Institute for New Testament Textual Research | access-date = 22 September 2011 |location=Münster}}{{Cite book

| last = Gregory

| first = Caspar René

| author-link = Caspar René Gregory

| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes

| publisher = J. C. Hinrichs

| year = 1900

| location = Leipzig

| volume = 1

| page = 283

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n295/mode/2up

}} The Catholic epistles contain a commentary.{{r|Gregory}}

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type in the Pauline epistles. In the Catholic epistles it has mixed text with some old and valuable readings. Kurt and Barbara Aland gave it the following textual profile in the Catholic epistles: 63¹, 7^1/2, 15², 15^s. This means the text of the manuscript agrees with the Byzantine standard text 63 times, and 7 times with the Byzantine when it has the same reading as the original text, it agrees 15 times with the original text against the Byzantine, it has 15 independent or distinctive readings (Sonderlesarten). In the Pauline epistles Alands gave the profile – 165¹, 44^1/2, 1², 6^s. Alands placed the Greek text of the Pauline epistles in Category V and the text of the Catholic epistles in the Category III.{{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 = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n156 134]

| url =https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt

| url-access = limited

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

It contains a spurious biblical passage the Comma Johanneum (from the original scribe).{{Cite book | author1 = Bruce M. Metzger | author2 = Bart D. Ehrman | title = The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration | url = https://www.scribd.com/doc/54229464/The-Text-of-NT-4th-Edit-Bruce-Metzger-Bart-Ehrman | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 2005 | page = 147| author-link2 = Bart D. Ehrman }}

History

F. H. A. Scrivener dated it to the fourteenth century.{{Cite book

| 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

| publisher = George Bell & Sons

| year = 1894

| location = London

| edition = 4

| volume = 1

| page = 299

}} C. R. Gregory dated the manuscript to the sixteenth century, which is in conformation with the current dating by the INTF.{{r|INTF}} The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (206^a) Gregory (234^a). Gregory saw it in 1886.{{r|Gregory}} It was briefly described by Emmanuel Miller (Miller 8).{{Cite book | author = Emmanuel Miller | title = Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la bibliothèque de l'Escurial | publisher = Imprimerie nationale | url = https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_iiIDAAAAYAAJ | location = Paris | year = 1848 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_iiIDAAAAYAAJ/page/n92 54]–66}} In 1908 Gregory gave it the number 918. Currently the manuscript is housed at the library of Escorial (Cod. Escurialensis, Σ. I. 5), in Escurial.{{r|Aland|INTF}}

References

External links

{{Cite web | url = http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/en_GB/liste/?ObjID=30918 | title = Liste Handschriften | publisher = Institute for New Testament Textual Research | access-date = 7 August 2011 | location = Münster}}

Category:Greek New Testament minuscules

Category:16th-century biblical manuscripts