Minuscule 689

Minuscule 689 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε326 (von Soden),^[1][2] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. The manuscript has complex contents.^[3][4] Scrivener labelled it by 593^e.^[5]

Minuscule 689

New Testament manuscript
Text	Gospels
Date	13th century
Script	Greek
Now at	British Library
Size	21.1 cm by 15.7 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 313 parchment leaves (size 21.1 cm by 15.7 cm),^[3] in 20 quires.^[5] The text is written in one column per page, 20 lines per page.^[3][6]

It contains Synaxarion, Prolegomena, the tables of the κεφαλαια (contents) are placed before each Gospel, numbers of the κεφαλαια (chapters) are given at the margin, there are no τιτλοι (titles), lectionary markings, incipits, Synaxarion, Menologion, subscriptions, numbers of στιχοι, and decorations.^[5][6] There are no division according to the Ammonian Sections, with a references to the Eusebian Canons.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K^r.^[7] Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.^[8]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family K^r in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It creates textual cluster with 1059.^[7]

History

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 12th century, Gregory to the 13th century.^[6] Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 13th century.^[4]

The manuscript was bought from Spyridion Lambros from Athens in 1859 (along with the codex 688 and 690).^[5]

It was added to the list of New Testament manuscript by Scrivener (593) and Gregory (689).^[5]

It was examined by Bloomfied and Dean Burgon.^[6]

The manuscript is currently housed at the British Library (Add MS 22737) in London.^[3][4]

See also

• Bible portal

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

References

1. Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 175.
2. Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 72.
3. Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 88. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
4. Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
5. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1 (fourth ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 259.
6. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 212.
7. 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. 64. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
8. 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. pp. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.

Further reading

• S. T. Bloomfield, Critical Annotations: Additional and Supplementary on the New Testament (1860)