Minuscule 668
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| number = 668
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| text = Gospels
| script = Greek
| date = 13th/14th century
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| now at = Syracuse University
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| size = {{×|20|16}}
| type = Byzantine text-type
| cat = V
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Minuscule 668 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1205 (von Soden),Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 161.{{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/n81/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=71}} is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th or 14th century. The manuscript has complex contents.{{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
| year = 1994
| location = Berlin, New York
| page = 86
| isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}[http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php Handschriftenliste] at the Münster Institute Scrivener labelled it by 1144e.{{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 = 279
}}
Description
The codex contains the entire of the four Gospels, on 201 parchment leaves (size {{×|20|16}}). The text is written in one column per page, 25-28 lines per page.
The heading for the Gospel of Mark is titled εκ του κατά Μάρκου.In this way are titled the headings of the Gospels in manuscripts: 69, 178, 543.
The lists of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} are placed before every book, the text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (chapters), with {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (titles). The Ammonian Sections are given (in Mark 234 Sections - last numbered section in 16:9), with references to the Eusebian Canons.{{Cite book
| last = Gregory
| first = Caspar René
| author-link = Caspar René Gregory
| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments
| publisher = J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung
| year = 1900
| location = Leipzig
| volume = 1
| page = 211
| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n223/mode/2up
}}
It contains lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), Synaxarion, Menologion, and pictures.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. 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 C. R. Gregory it has good readings.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family Kx in Luke 1; 10; 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/64 64]
| url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/64
| isbn = 0-8028-1918-4
| url-access = registration
}}
History
Gregory dated it to the 12th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 13th or 14th century.{{r|INTF}}
The manuscript was bought by Albert L. Long in Constantinople (see Minuscule 667).{{r|Soden161|Gregory}}
Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885 in Paris. The manuscript was collated by H. H. Severn in 1928 in his unpublished Ph.D. thesis.J. K. Elliott, A bibliography of Greek New Testament Manuscripts (New York 1989), p. 117
Currently the manuscript is housed at the Syracuse University (Ms. 226.048G), in Syracuse, New York.{{r|Aland|INTF}}
See also
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Notes
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Further reading
- I. H. Hall, On a Cursive Ms. of the Greek Gospels, Proceedings of the American Oriental Society (New Haven, 1884), pp. III-IV; and (1885), pp. CCV-CCVI.
- K. W. Clark, A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America (Chicago, 1937), pp. 216–217
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