Text Gospels Script Greek Size 26.5 cm by 19.5 cm | Date 12th century Now at Biblioteca della Badia Type Caesarean text-type | |
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Minuscule 828 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε219 (von Soden), is a 12th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment. The manuscript has survived in complete condition. It contains marginalia.
Contents
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 176 parchment leaves (size 26.5 cm by 19.5 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 27 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 left 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, Synaxarion (liturgical book with hagiographies), subscriptions at the end of each of the Gospels, numbers of remata, numbers of stichoi, and pictures.
According to Scrivener the Eusebian Canon tables are beautiful.
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 148 times the Byzantine text against original, 27 times original against the Byzantine, 77 times agrees with both texts; it has 64 independent or distinctive readings. Alands placed it in Category III.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family f13 in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. It is a fragmentary in Luke 10.
In Matthew 9:35 it has additional reading εν τω λαω και πολλοι ηκολουθησαν αυτω.
It lacks text of the Matthew 16:2b–3 and the text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11).
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 and Kirsopp Lake. It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (626) and Gregory (828e). Gregory saw it in 1886.
Currently the manuscript is housed at the Biblioteca della Badia (A' α. 5), in Grottaferrata.