Minuscule 751

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| number = 751

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| text = Gospel of Matthew

| script = Greek

| date = 13th century

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| now at = Bibliothèque nationale de France

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| size = {{×|15|12.4}}

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Minuscule 751 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε380 (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. 180.{{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 13th 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 739e.{{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 = 269

}}

Description

Originally the codex contained the text of the Gospels. To the present time survived only 19 parchment leaves (size {{×|15|12.4}}). It has only text of Matthew 2:13-9:17.

The text is written in one column per page, 47 lines per page.

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. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with a 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

| year = 1900

| location = Leipzig

| page = 218

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n231/mode/2up

}}

It contains the Eusebian tables, Prolegomena, tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (tables of contents) before each Gospel, liturgical books Synaxarion and Menologion (remarkable for peculiar art), and lectionary markings at the margin for liturgical reading.{{r|Gregory|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 = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n155 133], 139

| url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt

| url-access = limited

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

It was not examined according to 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

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History

Scrivener and Gregory dated the manuscript to the 13th century. The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 13th century.

It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (739) and Gregory (751). 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. 89 Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.{{r|Gregory}}

The manuscript is now housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Suppl. Gr. 919) in Paris.{{r|Aland|INTF}}

See also

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 = Hinrichs

| year = 1900

| location = Leipzig

| volume = 1

| page = 218

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n231/mode/2up

}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 751}}

Category:Greek New Testament minuscules

Category:13th-century biblical manuscripts

Category:Bibliothèque nationale de France collections