Minuscule 736
{{New Testament manuscript infobox
| form = Minuscule
| number = 736
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| text = Gospels †
| script = Greek
| date = 12th century
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| now at = Bibliothèque nationale de France
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| size = {{×|27.5|19.9}}
| type = Byzantine text-type
| cat = V
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Minuscule 736 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θε320 (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. 265.{{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/n85/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=74}} is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament written on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. The manuscript has no 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 = 91
| isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}[http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php Handschriftenliste] at the Münster Institute Scrivener labelled it as 754e.{{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 = 4
| location = London
| page = 270
}}
Description
The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Matthew and Gospel of John, on 235 parchment leaves (size {{×|27.5|19.9}}), with some lacunae (Matthew 1:1-16; 2:3-9; 6:3-9:30; John 19:24-34, 20:19-29). The text is written in one column per page, 35 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, with their {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is no another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (with references to the Eusebian Canons).{{Cite book
| last = Gregory
| first = Caspar René
| author-link = Caspar René Gregory
| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1
| year = 1900
| location = Leipzig
| page = 217
| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n229/mode/2up
}}
It contains lists of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} before each Gospel.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.{{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}}
It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.{{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
}}
It lacks the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11).
History
Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 11th or 12th century, Gregory dated the manuscript to the 12th century. The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 12th century.
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (754) and Gregory (736). It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au N. T., conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 98 Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.
The manuscript is now housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 198) in Paris.
See also
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References
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Further reading
- {{Cite book
| last = Gregory
| first = Caspar René
| author-link = Caspar René Gregory
| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments
| year = 1900
| location = Leipzig
| volume = 1
| page = 217
| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n229/mode/2up
}}
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Category:Greek New Testament minuscules