Minuscule 319
{{New Testament manuscript infobox
| form = Minuscule
| number = 319
| image = Minuscule 319 (GA) f85r.jpg
| isize =
| caption= The first page of James (folio 85 recto)
| name =
| sign =
| script = Greek
| date = 12th century
| found =
| now at = Christ's College, Cambridge
| cite =
| size = {{×|22.5|15}}
| type = Byzantine text-type
| cat = V
| hand =
| note =
}}
Minuscule 319 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 256 (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/n69/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=59}} is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.{{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 = 66
| isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}
Formerly it was labelled by 24a and 29p.{{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 = 286
}}
Description
The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 303 parchment leaves ({{×|22.5|15}}) with lacunae (Acts 1:1-11; 18:20-20:14; James 5:14—1 Peter 1:4). Some other lacunae were supplied by modern hand. {{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 = 265
| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n277/mode/2up
}}
Some leaves of this manuscript are torn and decayed. There are also many changes by a later hand.
The text is written in one column per page, biblical text in 22 lines per page.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. 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}}
History
Thomas Gale collated the manuscript for Mill (Cant. 2). It was examined Bentley, and John Wigley. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883. Formerly it was labelled by 24a and 29p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 319 to it.
The manuscript is currently housed at the Christ's College, Cambridge (GG. 1.9 (Ms. 9)) at Cambridge.
See also
References
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Further reading
- F. H. A. Scrivener, An Exact Transcript of the Codex Augiensis (Cambridge and London, 1859), pp. 64-66.
External links
{{Commonscat|Minuscule 319 (GA)}}
- [http://www.csntm.org/Manuscript/View/GA_319 Images from Minuscule 319] at the CSNTM
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