Minuscule 28

Minuscule 28

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
Text	Gospels
Date	11th-century
Script	Greek
Now at	National Library of France
Size	23.1 cm by 18.7 cm
Type	Caesarean text-type, Byzantine text-type
Category	III / V
Hand	carelessly written
Note	marginalia

Minuscule 28 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 168 (Soden), formerly known as Colbertinus 4705, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on vellum. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th-century. It has marginalia. It is lacunose.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 292 parchment leaves (23.1 cm by 18.7 cm), with numerous lacunae. The text is written in one column per page, 19 lines per page.

The words are written continuously without any separation. The letters are "written carelessly by an ignorant scribe", "but containing many noticeable readings". The initial letters in colour.

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 234, the last section in 16:9), with references to the Eusebian Canons (added by later hand).

It contains the tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel but inaccurate, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel. It contains also the Synaxarion. The manuscript was extensively altered by a later hand.

Lacunae:

Matthew 7:19-9:22, 14:33-16:10, 26:70-27:48, Luke 20:19-22:46, John 12:40-13:1; 15:24-16:12, 18:16-28, 20:19-21:4, 21:19-end). John 19:11-20:20, 21:5-18 were added by a later hand in the 15th century.

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Caesarean text-type in the Gospel of Mark, and the Byzantine text-type in rest of the Gospels. Aland placed it in Category III but only in Gospel of Mark, in the rest of the Gospels Aland placed in Category V.

Accordint to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family K^x in Luke 10 and Luke 20. In Luke 1 it has mixture of the Byzantine families.

It contains the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11).

In Matthew 10:34 it has singular reading μαχην και μαχαιραν (warfare and a sword) instead of μαχαιραν.

In Mark 9:49 it reads πας γαρ πυρι αλισθησεται – as manuscripts (א εν πυρι) B L W Δ f¹ f¹³ 565 700 ℓ 260 syr^s cop^sa.

In Mark 10:19 — phrase μη αποστερησης omitted (as in codices B, K, W, Ψ, f¹, f¹³, 700, 1010, 1079, 1242, 1546, 2148, ℓ 10, ℓ 950, ℓ 1642, ℓ 1761, syr^s, arm, geo.

In Mark 10:47 it has singular reading Ναζωρινός;

History

The manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 11th-century.

It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Johann Jakob Wettstein, who gave it the number 28. It was examined and described by Mill, Wettstein, Scholz, and Paulin Martin. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.

It is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 379) at Paris.

See also

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

Further reading

• Kirsopp Lake & Silva Lake, "Family 13 (The Ferrar Group): The Text According to Mark", Studies & Documents 11, 1941.
• Burnett Hillman Streeter, The Four Gospels: A Study of Origins (MacMillan, 1924).

External links

• R. Waltz, Minuscule 28 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism (2008)
• Images of Minuscule 28 at the CSNTM

• F. G. Kenyon, Handbook to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament, London², 1912, p. 132.
• NA26, p. 26.
• UBS3, p. 162.
• UBS3, p. 165
• UBS3, p. 169
• Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 40-41