Minuscule 667 Explained

Minuscule 667 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1185 (von Soden),^{[1] [2]} is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th or 12th century. The manuscript has complex contents.^{[3] [4]} Scrivener labelled it by 900^e.^[5]

Description

The codex contains the entire of the four Gospels, on 178 parchment leaves (size).^[3] The text is written in one column per page, 25-28 lines per page,^[3] in very small letters. The lists of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια are placed before every book, the text is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin and their Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: τιτλοι (titles) at the top.^[6]

The leaves 163 and 170 were supplemented in the 16th century.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Kurt Aland did not placed it in any Category.^[7]

According to the Wisse's Profile Method it belongs to the textual family K^x in Luke 1; 10; 20. It is close to the Codex Athous Dionysiou.^[8]

History

Gregory dated it to the 11th or 12th century.^[6] Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 11th or 12th century.^[4]

The manuscript was bought by Albert L. Long in Constantinople (see Minuscule 668).

Gregory saw the manuscript in 1895.^[6]

Currently the manuscript is housed at the Drew University (Ms. 11), in Madison, New Jersey.

See also

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

Further reading

• Everett A. Overton, The 'Drew' Gospel Manuscripts, Drew University 1933, 687-700
• Book: K. W. Clark . Kenneth Willis Clark . A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America . A University of Chicago Press . Chicago . 1937 . 38–39.

Notes and References

1. [Hermann von Soden]
2. Book: Gregory, Caspar René. Caspar René Gregory. Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. 1908. J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. Leipzig. 71.
3. Book: Aland , K. . Kurt Aland . M. Welte . B. Köster . K. Junack . Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments . . 1994 . Berlin, New York . 86 . 3-11-011986-2 .
4. http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php Handschriftenliste
5. Book: Scrivener , Frederick Henry Ambrose . Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener . Edward Miller . . . 1894 . London . 4 . 1 . 276 .
6. Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . Hinrichs . 1900 . Leipzig . 1 . 210 .
7. Book: Aland , Kurt . Kurt Aland . Aland . Barbara . Barbara Aland . Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) . The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism . . 1995 . Grand Rapids . 139 . 978-0-8028-4098-1.
8. Book: Wisse , Frederik . The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke . . 1982 . Grand Rapids . 64 . 0-8028-1918-4 . registration .