Minuscule 740
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| form = Minuscule
| number = 740
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| text = Gospels
| script = Greek
| date = 1318
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| now at = Bibliothèque nationale de France
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| size = {{×|24.9|17.5}}
| type = ?
| cat = none
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| note = commentary
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Minuscule 740 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θε410 (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. 267.{{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 paper. It is dated by a colophon to 1318 CE. 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 = 91
| isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}[http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php Handschriftenliste] at the Münster Institute Scrivener labelled it as 761e.{{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
| edition = 4
| location = London
| volume = 1
| page = 270
}}
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 444 paper leaves (size {{×|24.9|17.5}}). According to Scrivener it has 441 leaves.{{r|Scrivener}} The text of Matthew 1:1-2:18 was supplied by a later hand.{{r|Soden}}
The text is written in one column per page, 33-37 lines per page.{{r|Aland}}
The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (titles) at the top. According to Gregory there is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections.{{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
}}
It contains lectionary markings and Synaxarion (liturgical book). It has a commentary of Theophylact.{{r|Scrivener}}
Text
Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.{{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
| pages = 133, 139
| isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}
It was not examined by using 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]
| isbn = 0-8028-1918-4
| url-access = registration
| url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/65
}}
History
Martin and after him Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 12th or 13th century; Gregory dated it to the 14th or 15th century. According to the colophon the manuscript was written in 1318.{{r|Aland|INTF}} The name of scribe was John (?), from Chalcedon (?).{{r|Gregory}}
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (761) and Gregory (740). 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. 100 Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.{{r|Gregory}}
The manuscript is now housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 234) in Paris.{{r|Aland|INTF}}
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
| publisher = J.C. Hinrichs
| 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