Minuscule 1813, designated by number 1813 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 3047 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on 235 parchment leaves (22.5 by 14.9 cm). Paleografically it had been assigned to the 11th century (or 12th).[1]

Minuscule 1813
New Testament manuscript
TextTetraevangelion
Dateca. 1100
ScriptGreek
FoundTrebizond
Now atDuke University
Size22.5 cm by 14.9 cm
Categorynone
Handroundish cursive

Description edit

It contains a complete text of the four Gospels. It is written in a roundish cursive hand. The writing is in one column per page, in 26-27 lines per page.[1] It contains Synaxarion and Menologion.

Text edit

Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.[2] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kr in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It creates a pair with 966.[3]

History edit

The name of scribe was Hierotheos.[4] Formerly it was kept in the monastery in Soumela (Ms. 82), in Trebizond. Purchased on 1961 for $ 2 380.

Currently the codex is located in the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of the Duke University (Gk MS 25) at Durham.[1]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 149.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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. 83. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
  4. ^ C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes III (Leipzig: 1909), p. 1182.

Further reading edit

  • Kurt Treu, Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der USSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan, T & U 91 (Berlin: 1966), p. 325.
  • Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des Neues Testament in ihrer altesten erreichbaren Textgestalt (Berlin, 1907), p. 191.

External links edit

  • Minuscule 1813 at the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts