Minuscule 862

{{New Testament manuscript infobox

| form = Minuscule

| number = 862

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| text = Gospel of John

| script = Greek

| date = 12th century

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| now at = Vatican Library

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| size = {{×|27|22.9}}

| type = Byzantine text-type

| cat = V

| hand =

| note = commentary

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Minuscule 862 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θ^ε29 (von Soden),{{Cite book|last=Soden, von|first=Hermann|author-link=Hermann, Freiherr von Soden|title=Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte|volume=1|year=1902|publisher=Verlag von Alexander Duncker|location=Berlin|page=263}}{{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/n87/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=77}} is a 12th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment. The manuscript has complex context, but without marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of John on 402 parchment leaves (size {{×|27|22.9}}), with a catena. The text is written in one column per page, 24 lines per page.{{Cite book

| last = Aland

| first = Kurt

| 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 = 97

| isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}{{Cite web|url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php|title=Liste Handschriften|publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research|access-date=9 March 2011|location=Münster}}

The biblical text is surrounded by a catena, the commentary is of Theophylact's authorship.{{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 = 228

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n241/mode/2up

}}{{Cite book

| last = Scrivener

| first = Frederick Henry Ambrose

| author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

| title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament

| publisher = George Bell & Sons

| year = 1894

| location = London

| edition = 4

| volume = 1

| page = 266

}}

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Kurt 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

| page = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n161 139]

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

| url-access = limited

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

History

F. H. A. Scrivener and C. R. Gregory dated the manuscript to the 12th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 12th century.

The name of scribe was Arsenius.

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (675^e) and Gregory (862^e). Gregory saw it in 1886.

Currently the manuscript is housed at the Vatican Library (Gr. 1191), in Rome.

References

External links

{{Cite web |url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=30862 |title=Liste Handschriften |publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research|access-date=20 March 2011|location=Münster}}

Category:Greek New Testament minuscules

Category:12th-century biblical manuscripts

Category:Manuscripts in the Vatican Library