Text Gospels Script Greek Type Byzantine text-type | Date 14th century Size 20 cm by 14.5 cm | |
Now at National Library of Greece | ||
Minuscule 761 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε476 (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 complex contents. Scrivener labelled it as 850e.
Contents
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 281 parchment leaves (size 20 cm by 14.5 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 22 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 of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 233, last in 16:8), with references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains lectionary books Synaxarion and Menologion, Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian tables, Prolegomena, lectionary markings at the margin, subscriptions at the end, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, and pictures. The manuscript is ornamented.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the Antiocheian commentated text (Kak), it means the Byzantine commentated text. Aland placed it in Category V.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It belongs to the textual cluster 46, and creates pair with 995 in Luke 1 and Luke 10.
History
Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 14th century; Gregory dated the manuscript to the 14th century. The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 14th century.
It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (850) and Gregory (761). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886. It was presented to the museum in Aegina.
The manuscript is now housed at the National Library of Greece (154) in Athens.