Minuscule 716

{{New Testament manuscript infobox

| form = Minuscule

| number = 716

| image = Minuscule 716 f.1.jpg

| isize = 200

| caption= The first page of Matthew

| name =

| sign =

| text = Gospels

| script = Greek

| date = 14th century

| found =

| now at = British Library

| cite =

| size = {{×|21.5|15}}

| type = mixed/Byzantine

| cat = none

| hand =

| note = –

}}

Minuscule 716 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε448 (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. 195.{{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/n83/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=73}} is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century. The manuscript is in the British Library as Egerton MS 2784. 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 = 89

| isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}[http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php Handschriftenliste] at the Münster Institute Scrivener labelled it as 565^e.{{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, vol. 1

| publisher = George Bell & Sons

| year = 1894

| edition = fourth

| location = London

| page = 256

}}

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 176 parchment leaves (size {{×|21.5|15}}).{{Cite book

| last = Gregory

| first = Caspar René

| author-link = Caspar René Gregory

| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1

| year = 1900

| location = Leipzig

| page = 215

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n227/mode/2up

}}

The text is written in one column per page, 24-26 lines per page. The manuscript has ornamented headpieces, the initial letters in brown with pen-work decoration, the initial for Epsilon has anthropomorphic motif with a blessing hand.[http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=548&CollID=28&NStart=2784 Minuscule 716] at the British Library The decorations do not use colours.

The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin of the text, and their {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (titles) are given at the top of the pages. The lists of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (tables of contents) are placed before each Gospel. The text is also divided according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 242 sections), whose numbers are given at the margin, with references to the Eusebian Canons.

It contains lectionary markings margin (incipits), {{lang|grc|αναγνωσεις}} (lessons) at the margin, Synaxarion (fragment), subscriptions at the end of the Gospels, {{lang|grc|ρηματα}}, and {{lang|grc|στιχοι}}.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is mixed with numerous Byzantine element. Kurt Aland did not place it in any Category.{{Cite book

| last1 = Aland

| first1 = 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

| pages = 139

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

According to the Claremont Profile Method it creates textual cluster with minuscule 343 in Luke 1 and Luke 10. In Luke 20 it creates cluster with minuscule 686.{{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/65 65]

| url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/65

| isbn = 0-8028-1918-4

| url-access = registration

}} Textually it is close to the textual family K^x.

History

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 12th century, Dean Burgon to the 13th century, Gregory dated it to the 14th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 14th century.

Formerly the manuscript belonged to Bernard Quaritch, then it was held in Sotheby's. It belonged to Burgon and Rose. It was bought for the British Museum in 1893 (along with minuscule 714 and 715).

It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (565) and Gregory (716). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1883. The text was collated by Rose.

Burgon examined and described the manuscript in the Guardian from July 19, 1882.

References

External links

[http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=548&CollID=28&NStart=2784 Minuscule 716] at the British Library
[http://www.skypoint.com/members/waltzmn/Manuscripts501-1000.html#m716 Minuscule 716] at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism

Category:Greek New Testament minuscules

Category:14th-century biblical manuscripts

Category:Egerton Collection