Minuscule 427

Minuscule 427 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), Θ^ε305 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament written on parchment. Using the study of comparative writings styles (palaeography), it has been assigned to the 13th century.^[2] It has marginal notes and contains a commentary from Theophylact of Ohrid.

Minuscule 427

New Testament manuscript
Folio 1 recto
Name	Monacensis 465
Text	Luke, Mark
Date	13th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Bavarian State Library
Size	25.8 cm by 20.7 cm
Type	mixed / Byzantine
Category	none
Note	marginalia

Description

The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book containing the text of the Gospel of Luke and Gospel of Mark on 140 parchment leaves, sized (25.8 cm by 20.7 cm). It is written in one column per page, and 34 lines per page.^[2]

The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 240 Sections, the last in 16:20), whose numbers are given at the margin. There are no references to the Eusebian Canons.^[3]

It contains lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use) and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, with the numbers of phrases (known as ρηματα / rhemata) and numbers of lines (known as στιχοι / stichoi) in Luke but not Mark, and a commentary of Theophylact in both Luke and Mark.^[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is considered to be predominantly mixed with the Byzantine text-type. Biblical scholar Kurt Aland did not place it in any Category of his New Testament manuscript classification system.^[4] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family K^x in Luke 10. In Luke 1 it has mixed text, in Luke 20 it has mixture of the Byzantine text-types.^[5]

History

The manuscript was written by one Maurus. It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz.^[6] C. R. Gregory saw it in 1887.^[3]

The manuscript was formerly held in Augsburg, however it is currently housed at the Bavarian State Library (shelf number Gr. 465) in Munich, Germany.^[2]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism
• Minuscule 428

References

1. Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs. p. 63.
2. Aland, Kurt; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 72. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
3. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 189.
4. Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
5. Wisse, Frederik (1982). The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 60. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
6. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 225.

External links

• Minuscule 427 at the CSNTM