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Minuscule 742 (Gregory Aland)

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Text
  
Gospel of John

Script
  
Greek

Type
  
?

Date
  
15th century

Size
  
21.9 cm by 15 cm

Now at
  
Bibliothèque nationale de France

Minuscule 742 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θε414 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament written on paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 15th century. The manuscript has no complex contents. Scrivener labelled it as 764e.

Contents

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of John on 160 paper leaves (size 21.9 cm by 15 cm), with one lacuna (John 21:22-25).

The text is written in one column per page, 26-28 lines per page.

It has a commentary of Theophylact.

Text

Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.

It was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method.

It lacks the text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11).

History

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 15th or 16th century; Gregory dated it to the 15th century. The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 15th century.

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (764) and Gregory (742). 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. 1775) in Paris.

References

Minuscule 742 (Gregory-Aland) Wikipedia