Minuscule 904

Minuscule 904 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 4001 (von Soden),^[1] is a 14th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on paper. It has marginalia. The manuscript has survived in complete condition.

Minuscule 904

New Testament manuscript
Text	Gospels
Date	14th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria
Size	28 cm by 20 cm
Type	Byzantine
Category	V
Note	marginalia

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 376 paper leaves (size 28 cm by 20 cm), with some lacunae.^[2] The text is written in one column per page, 23 lines per page.^[2][3][4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family I^k.^[5] Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.^[6]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Π in Luke 1 and Luke 10, as a weak member. In Luke 20 it represents textual family K^x.^[5]

History

According to the colophon it was written in September 1360 by Theophylact.^[4][7] Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 14th century.^[3]

It was examined and described by Victor Gardthausen (as 952).^[4][7]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory (904^e).^[4] It was not on the Scrivener's list, but it was added to his list by Edward Miller in the 4th edition of A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament.^[8]

Jacob Greelings collated the text of the Gospel of Matthew and it was included in appendix A to work of S. Kubo.^[9]

It is not cited in critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS4,^[10] NA28^[11]).

The manuscript is housed at the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria (77).^[2][3]

See also

• Bible portal

• List of New Testament minuscules (1–1000)
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism
• Minuscule 903

References

1. Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 78.
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. 101. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
3. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
4. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 231.
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. 67. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
6. 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.
7. Viktor Gardthausen (1886). Catalogus codicum Graecorum Sinaiticorum. Oxford. pp. 260–261.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
8. 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. 276.
9. Sakae Kubo, 𝔓 72 and the Codex Vaticanus, Studies and Documents 27 (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1965), pp. 161-196.
10. Aland, B.; Aland, K.; J. Karavidopoulos, C. M. Martini, B. Metzger, A. Wikgren (1993). The Greek New Testament (4 ed.). Stuttgart: United Bible Societies. p. 18*. ISBN 978-3-438-05110-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
11. Nestle, Eberhard et Erwin; communiter ediderunt: B. et K. Aland, J. Karavidopoulos, C. M. Martini, B. M. Metzger (2001). Novum Testamentum Graece (27 ed.). Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft. p. 812. ISBN 978-3-438-05100-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Further reading

• Sakae Kubo, 𝔓 72 and the Codex Vaticanus, Studies and Documents 27 (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1965), pp. 161-196.

External links

• "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 11 April 2013.