Text Gospels Now at Biblioteca della Badia Type Caesarean text-type Script Greek language | Date 12th century Size 22.8 cm by 17.5 cm Category III | |
Minuscule 826 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε218 (von Soden), is a 12th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment. It has marginalia.
Contents
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 233 parchment leaves (size 22.8 cm by 17.5 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 25–26 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), and according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 234 sections, the last numbered section in 16:9). The numerals of the κεφαλαια are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages. The Ammonian Sections are given with a references to the Eusebian Canons (written under Ammonian Sections).
It contains the Eusebian Canon tables at the beginning, tables of the κεφαλαια (table of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary markings for liturgical use, incipits, liturgical books: Synaxarion and Menologion, subscriptions at the end each of the Gospels with numbers of stichoi.
According to Scrivener it is a beautiful codex.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Caesarean text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Iιc. According to Kurt and Barbara Aland it supports the Byzantine text against the "original" 157 times, original against the Byzantine – 27 times, and 77 times agrees with both. It has also 60 independent or distinctive readings. Alands placed it in Category III.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family f13 (Ferrar Family) in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. It is a perfect member of the family.
It lacks the text of the Matthew 16:2b–3, but it was added by a later hand at the margin. It lacks text of the Christ's agony at Gethsemane (Luke 22:43-44). The text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is relocated and placed after Luke 21:38.
History
Gregory dated the manuscript to the 12th century, other palaeographers dated it to the 11th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 12th century. The manuscript was written in Calabria, in Rhegium (?).
The manuscript was examined and described by Antonio Rocci in 1882. William Henry Simcox collated major part of Luke for the Gregory's wish. It was examined by Kirsopp Lake and Jacob Geerlings. According to Geerlings it is the archetype of the family 13 (Ferrar Family).
It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (624) and Gregory (826e). Gregory saw it in 1886.
Currently the manuscript is housed at the Biblioteca della Badia (A' α. 3), in Grottaferrata.