Minuscule 687

Minuscule 687

New Testament manuscript

Text Gospel of Matthew
Date 11th century
Script Greek
Now at British Library
Size 23.4 cm by 17.2 cm
Type ?
Category none

Minuscule 687 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε1124 (von Soden),[1][2] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. The manuscript has survived in a fragmentary condition.[3][4] Scrivener labelled it by 579e.[5]

Description

The codex contains fragments of the Gospel of Matthew, on 7 parchment leaves (size 23.4 cm by 17.2 cm).[1][3] The text is written in two columns per page, 29 lines per page.[3][6]

Contents

Matthew 10:33-11:12, 13:44-14:6, 15:14-18.20-22.26-29.30-32, 15:34-17:10, 17:12-15.18-20.22-24; 17:26-18:16.[3][6]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), which numbers are given at the left margin of the text, and their τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the page. There is also a division into smaller sections, the Ammonian Sections, with a references to the Eusebian Canons. Lectionary markings were added by a later hand.[5][6]

Text

Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.[7]

History

Scrivener and Gregory dated the manuscript to the 11th century.[6] Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 11th century.[4]

The manuscript once belonged to the Butler collection.[5]

It was added to the list of New Testament manuscript by Scrivener (579) and Gregory (687).[5]

Actually the manuscript is housed at the British Library (Add. 11868B), Oxford.[3][4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 148.
  2. Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 72.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 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. 1 2 3 Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
  5. 1 2 3 4 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. 258.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 212.
  7. 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.

Further reading

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