Minuscule 1780

Minuscule 1780 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) δ 412 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on 198 parchment leaves (30.6 cm by 22.7 cm). Paleografically it has been assigned to the 13th century (or about 1200).[1]

Minuscule 1780
New Testament manuscript
TextNew Testament
Date13th century
ScriptGreek
FoundIkosifinissa
Now atDuke University
Size30.6 cm by 22.7 cm
Categorynone

Description

The codex contains entire of the New Testament with unusual order of the General epistles. Written in one column per page, in 41-52 lines per page. The order of the books: Gospels, Acts, James, Pauline epistles, General epistles (except for James), the Apocalypse. It contains prolegomena to the Catholic epistle, and a commentary to the Apocalypse without the text.[2]

The Greek text of the codex Kurt Aland did not place in any Category.[3] According to the Claremont Profile Method it has a mixture of the Byzantine families in Luke 1, and represents the textual family Kx in Luke 10 and Luke 20.[4]

History

Probably it was written in Calabria.[2] Before World War I it was held in Kosinitza. It was examined by Lake in 1902.[2] Professor Harvie Branscomb of the Duke Divinity School bought the manuscript in the Munich bookshop. The manuscript after his arriving to the Library became Duke Greek Ms. 1. It was happen in 19 February 1931.[5]

The codex now is located in the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of the Duke University (Gk MS 1) at Durham.[1]

See also

References
  1. K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 147.
  2. Gregory, Caspar René (1909). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 3. Leipzig. p. 1180.
  3. Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  4. Wisse, Frederik (1982). The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 83. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
  5. A Short History of the Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts

Further reading
  • Normann A. Huffman, "The Text of Mark in the Duke New Testament", unpublished M.A. thesis, Duke University, 1932.
  • John L. Stokes II, "The Text of Acts in the Duke New Testament", unpublished B.D. thesis, Duke University, 1932.
  • Ferrell Pledger, "The Text of the Apocalypse in the Duke New Testament", unpublished B.D. thesis, Duke University, 1937.
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