Minuscule 779
{{New Testament manuscript infobox
| form = Minuscule
| number = 779
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| text = Gospels
| script = Greek
| date = 12th century
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| now at = National Library of Greece
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| size = {{×|18.5|14}}
| type = Byzantine text-type
| cat = V
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Minuscule 779 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε472 (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. 197.{{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=75}} is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament written on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th 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 = 93
| isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}[http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php Handschriftenliste] at the Münster Institute
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 171 parchment leaves (size {{×|18.5|14}}). The text is written in one column per page, 26-28 lines per page. Some leaves are wrongly bound.{{r|Soden}}
The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections, but without references to the Eusebian Canons.{{r|Gregory}}
It contains lectionary markings at the margin, incipits, liturgical books with hagiographies (Synaxarion, Menologion), and pictures.{{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 = 221
| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n233/mode/2up
}}
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx. 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
| pages = 139
| isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represent the textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 it has mixed Byzantine text. It is related to Π groups.{{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/66 66]
| url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/66
| isbn = 0-8028-1918-4
| url-access = registration
}}
History
C. R. Gregory dated the manuscript to the 12th century. The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 12th century.
The manuscript was noticed in catalogue from 1876.{{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 = 219
| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n231/mode/2up
}}
It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory (779). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.
The manuscript is now housed at the National Library of Greece (127) in Athens.{{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 = J.C. Hinrichs
| year = 1900
| location = Leipzig
| volume = 1
| page = 221
| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n233/mode/2up
}}
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Category:Greek New Testament minuscules