Text Gospels † Script Greek Type Byzantine text-type | Date 14th century Size 29.9 cm by 22 cm | |
Now at Bibliothèque nationale de France | ||
Minuscule 734 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θε48 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament written on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century. The manuscript has no complex contents. Scrivener labelled it as 752e.
Contents
Description
The codex contains the text of the Gospel of John, Gospel of Matthew, and Gospel of Luke, on 297 parchment leaves (size 29.9 cm by 22 cm). The leaves 269-297 are paper. It is ornamented.
The text of the Gospel of Mark has lost. Only Prolegomena to Mark has survived.
The order of books: John, Matthew, Luke, and Mark. The same order has minuscule 19 and 427.
The text is written in one column per page, 37 lines per page.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.
It was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method.
History
Scrivener and Gregory dated the manuscript to the 14th or 15th century. The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 14th century.
The manuscript formerly belonged to Arsenios from Monembasia.
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (752) and Gregory (734). 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. 192) in Paris.