Minuscule 61

New Testament manuscripts
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Minuscule 61
	Comma Johanneum
Surname	Codex Montfortianus
text	New Testament
language	Greek
date	circa 1520
Storage location	Trinity College (Dublin)
size	15.8 x 12 cm
Type	Byzantine, mixed
category	III, V

Minuscule 61 (numbered after Gregory-Aland ), δ 603 ( von Soden ), also known as Codex Montfortii, is a Greek lowercase manuscript of the New Testament on 455 sheets of paper (15.8 cm × 12 cm). Using paleography , the manuscript was dated to the 16th century.

description

The Code contains the full text of the New Testament. It was written in one column with 21 lines each. The manuscript contains Prolegomena, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, images, Ammonian sections, the Eusebian Canon , signatures and στιχοι. It contains some of the Scholia of Arethas.

The books are arranged in this order: Gospels, Pauline Epistles, Acts of the Apostles, Catholic Epistles (James, Jude, 1–2 Peter, 1–3 John), and Revelation to John. The order of the Catholic letters is as in minuscule code 326.

The Greek text of the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles represents the Byzantine text type . Aland placed it in Category V a. The text in the rest of the New Testament books is mixed. Aland places him in Category III .

history

It is the oldest surviving Greek manuscript known to us, which contains the Comma Johanneum in 1 John 5: 7-8. The text of the Apocalypse was later added by other hands.

The minuscule 61 once belonged to Thomas Montfort, from whom it bears the name, then to James Ussher (as Codex 63 ), who bequeathed it to Trinity College. She is currently at Trinity College (Ms. 30) in Dublin .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack: Brief list of the Greek manuscripts of the New Testament . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1994, p. 50.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Caspar René Gregory : Text criticism of the New Testament . tape 1 . Leipzig 1900, p. 142 ( Internet Archive ).
^ Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener: A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament . tape 1 . London 1894, p. 199-200 ( Internet Archive ).
↑ Kurt and Barbara Aland : The text of the New Testament. Introduction to the scientific editions as well as the theory and practice of modern textual criticism . German Bible Society , Stuttgart 1989, p. 141, ISBN 3-438-06011-6
↑ Bruce M. Metzger , Bart D. Ehrman : The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration . Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 88, 147.

literature

Orlando T. Dobbin: The Codex Montfortianus: A Collation of this Celebrated Ms. in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, Throughout the Gospels and Acts, with the Greek Text of Wetstein, and with Certain Mss. In the University of Oxford (London , 1854).
TK Abbott: Note on the Codex Montfortianus . In: Hermathena . XVII, 1891, p. 203.

Web links

Codex Montfortianus in the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism
Johanneum Comma Archives

[Aland1-1] K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack: Brief list of the Greek manuscripts of the New Testament . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1994, p. 50.

[Gregory-2] Caspar René Gregory : Text criticism of the New Testament . tape 1 . Leipzig 1900, p. 142 ( Internet Archive ).

[Scrivener-3] Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener: A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament . tape 1 . London 1894, p. 199-200 ( Internet Archive ).

[Aland2-4] Kurt and Barbara Aland : The text of the New Testament. Introduction to the scientific editions as well as the theory and practice of modern textual criticism . German Bible Society , Stuttgart 1989, p. 141, ISBN 3-438-06011-6

[5] Bruce M. Metzger , Bart D. Ehrman : The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration . Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 88, 147.