Text Gospels † Script Greek Type ? | Date 12th century Size 29.7 cm by 22.3 cm | |
Now at Bibliothèque nationale de France | ||
Minuscule 733 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θε324 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament written on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. The manuscript has no complex contents. Scrivener labelled it as 751e. It has marginalia.
Contents
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 347 parchment leaves (size 29.7 cm by 22.3 cm), with one lacuna (Mark 1:1-3; 16:15-fin; John 3:6-5:21). The text of Luke 1:1-5 was supplied by a later hand. The text is written in one column per page, 40-47 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles) at the top. There is no another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains Prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel. It has a commentary, and portrait of Evangelist Matthew.
Text
Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.
It was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method.
History
Scrivener and Gregory dated the manuscript to the 12th century. The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 12th century.
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (751) and Gregory (733). It was examined and described by Paulin Martin. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.
The manuscript is now housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 190) in Paris.