Minuscule 11

{{Short description|Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament}}

{{New Testament manuscript infobox

| form = Minuscule

| number = 11

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| text = Gospels

| script = Greek

| date = 14th-century

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| now at = National Library of France

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| size = {{×|16.2|9.3}}

| type = Byzantine text-type

| cat = V

| hand = neatly written

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Minuscule 11 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 297 (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/n59/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=48}} It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament in two small volumes. The first volume has 230 leaves, the second volume has 274 leaves parchment ({{×|16.2|9.3}}). Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th-century.{{Cite book

| last = Aland

| first = K.

| 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

| location = Berlin, New York

| year = 1994

| edition = 2

| page = 47

| isbn = 3-11-011986-2}}

Description

The codex contains the complete text of the four Gospels. The text is written in one column per page, 16 lines per page, in neat letters.{{r|Aland}}

The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφάλαια}} (chapters), whose numbers are placed at the margin, and their {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (titles) at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the shorter the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 233 sections, the last in 16:7), whose numbers are placed at the margin, with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).{{r|Gregory}}

It contains the Eusebian Canon tables, placed before each Gospel, and portraits of the Evangelists.{{Cite book

| last = Gregory

| first = Caspar René

| author-link = Caspar René Gregory

| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes

| publisher = J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung

| year = 1900

| location = Leipzig

| volume = 1

| page = 130

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n143/mode/2up

}}

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type, but there are some Alexandrian readings.{{Cite book | author = C.v. Tischendorf | url = https://archive.org/stream/novumtestamentu00tiscgoog#page/n218/mode/2up | title = Novum Testamentum Graece. Editio Septima | location = Lipsiae | year = 1859 | page = CXCV}} 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 = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n160 138]

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

| url-access = limited

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

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Πb in Luke 1, and Kx in Luke 10 and Luke 20.{{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/53 53]

| url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/53

| isbn = 0-8028-1918-4

| url-access = registration

}}

History

The manuscript was dated by C. R. Gregory to the 12th century.{{r|Gregory}} Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 14th-century.{{Cite web | url = http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/liste | title = Liste Handschriften | publisher = Institute for New Testament Textual Research | access-date = 2013-05-01 | location = Münster | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180220015104/http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/liste | archive-date = 2018-02-20 | url-status = dead }}

It was in private hands, and belonged to the Archbishop of Reims Le Tellier (1671–1710), like codices 10, 13.{{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 = 192

}}

It was used by Kuster in his edition of the Greek New Testament (as Paris 4). The manuscript was examined by Scholz. It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.{{Cite book | author = Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin | author-link = Paulin Martin | title = Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris | location = Paris | year = 1883 | page = 24}} C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.{{r|Gregory}}

The codex is located at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 121.122) in Paris,{{r|Aland|INTF}} which [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b85722313/f001.image has images of the entire manuscript on its website].

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 Testamentes

| publisher = J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung

| year = 1900

| location = Leipzig

| volume = 1

| page = 130

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n143/mode/2up

}}

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Category:Greek New Testament minuscules

Category:14th-century biblical manuscripts

Category:Bibliothèque nationale de France collections