Minuscule 744

Minuscule 744 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θ^ε22 (von Soden),[1][2] 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.[3][4] Scrivener labelled it as 759^e.[5]

Minuscule 744

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Text	Gospels †
Date	13th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Bibliothèque nationale de France
Size	28.8 cm by 21 cm
Type	?
Category	none
Note	commentary

Description

The codex contains the four Gospels on 367 parchment leaves (size 28.8 cm by 21 cm),[3] with one lacuna. Matthew 1:1-3:6 was added later.[6]

The text is written in one 27-line column per page.[3]

It contains tables of the κεφαλαια to Matthew (added later),[6] the τιτλοι (titles) in Matthew, and portrait of Evangelist Luke.[5]

It has a commentary of Theophylact.[6]

Text

Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.[7]

It was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method.[8]

History

Bernard de Montfaucon and Henri Omont dated the manuscript to the 11th century; Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 15th or 16th century; Gregory dated it to the 13th century.[6] The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 13th century.[4]

The manuscript once belonged to the monastery of the St. Justina in Padua (as Minuscule 367).[6]

The manuscript was examined by Bernard de Montfaucon,[9] Paulin Martin,[10] and Henri Omont.[6]

It joined the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (759) and Gregory (744). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.[6]

The manuscript is now at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Supplément Gr. 219) in Paris.[3][4]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism
• Minuscule 743

References

1. Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 262.
2. Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 74.
3. Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 91. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
4. Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
5. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 270.
6. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 218.
7. 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. pp. 133, 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
8. 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. 65. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
9. Bernard de Montfaucon, Diarium italicum, p. 78
10. Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au N.T., conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 99

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 218.

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