Minuscule 314

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Minuscule 314 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), O¹¹ (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 11th century.^[1] Formerly it was labelled by 23^a, 28^p, ^6r.^[2]

Contents 1 Description 2 Text 3 History 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles, and Book of Revelation on 299 parchment leaves (13 cm by 10 cm) with mumerous lacunae.^[1] Written in one column per page, biblical text in 22 lines per page, text of commentary in 57-66 lines per page.^[3] A beautiful little book.^[2]

Lacunae

Acts 1:1-3:10; 3:10-11:13; 14:9-26; 17:6-19; 20:28-24:12 1 Peter 2:2-16; 3:7-21; 2 Cor 9:14-11:9; Gal 1:1-18; Eph 6:1-19; Phil 4:7-23; Rev 1:10-17; 9:11-17; 17:10-18:8; 20:1-22:21.^[3]

Acts 1:1-3:10 was added in the 14th century.^[3] It contains lists of κεφαλαια, Euthalian Prolegomena and scholia on the Epistles, a full Commentary on the Apocalypse, edited by J. A. Cramer in 1840.^[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[4]

History

The manuscript was written in Ephesus.^[2] It was examined by Mill, Caspar, Wettstein, Griesbach, and Bloomfield.

The manuscript is currently housed at the Bodleian Library (Barocci 3) at Oxford.^[1]

See also

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

References

• 1. Aland, K.; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 65. ISBN 3110119862.
• 2. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1. London. p. 286.
• 3. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 265.
• 4. Aland, Kurt; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.

Further reading

External links

• Minuscule 314 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism
• Wikipedia Article on Minuscule 314