Minuscule 734 (Gregory-Aland)

Minuscule **734**
New Testament manuscript
Text	Gospels †
Date	14th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Bibliothèque nationale de France
Size	29.9 cm by 22 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	–

Minuscule 734 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θ^ε48 (von Soden),^[1]^[2] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament written on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century. The manuscript has no complex contents.^[3]^[4] Scrivener labelled it as 752^e.^[5]

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of John, Gospel of Matthew, and Gospel of Luke, on 297 parchment leaves (size 29.9 cm by 22 cm).^[3]^[6] The leaves 269-297 are paper. It is ornamented.^[5]

The text of the Gospel of Mark has lost. Only Prolegomena to Mark has survived.^[1]

The order of books: John, Matthew, Luke, and Mark.^[1] The same order has minuscule 19 and 427.

The text is written in one column per page, 37 lines per page.^[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[7]

It was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method.^[8]

History

Scrivener and Gregory dated the manuscript to the 14th or 15th century.^[6] The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 14th century.^[4]

The manuscript formerly belonged to Arsenios from Monembasia.^[1]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (752) and Gregory (734). It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.^[9] Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.^[6]

The manuscript is now housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 192) in Paris.^[3]^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 266.
^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 74.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 91. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
^ ^a ^b ^c Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
^ ^a ^b Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 270.
^ ^a ^b ^c Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 217.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ 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. pp. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
^ 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. 65. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
^ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testameny, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 98

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New Testament manuscript
Text	Gospels †
Date	14th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Bibliothèque nationale de France
Size	29.9 cm by 22 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	–