Minuscule 339
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Minuscule 339 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 303 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.[2] It has marginalia.
Description
The codex originally contained a complete text of the New Testament on 200 parchment leaves (21.6 cm by 15.7 cm). It was written in two columns per page, in 56-58 lines per page.[2] It was written by three different hands.[3] However, it was mostly destroyed by fire at the Turin library in 1904, and only charred fragments remain.
The text is divided according to the Script error: No such module "Lang". (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their Script error: No such module "Lang". (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 237 – last in 16:15), whose numbers are given at the margin with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).[3]
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, tables of Script error: No such module "Lang". (tables of contents) before each book, Synaxarion, Menologion, the Eusebian apparatus (Acts, Cath., Paul), and other additional matter.[3][4]
The order of book is typical for major Greek manuscripts: Gospels, Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles, Book of Revelation, but this order is not original.[3]
It contains the Book of Psalms, Epistle of Pilatus with response, Genealogy of Maria.[3]
According to the subscription at the end of the Epistle to the Romans, the Letter was written προς Ρωμαιους εγραφη απο Κορινθου δια Φοιβης της διακονου; the same subscription have manuscripts: 42, 90, 216, 462, 466, 642;[5]
Text
Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.[6] It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.[7]
History
The manuscript was examined by Pasino, Scholz, and Burgon. It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).[8] C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.[3]
The manuscript is currently housed at the Turin National University Library (B. V. 8) in Turin.[2]
See also
References
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Further reading
- Giuseppe Passino, Codices manuscripti Bibliothaece Regii Taurini Athenaei, Turin 1742, vol. 2.
- G. de Sanctis, Rivista di Filologiae d'Instruzione Classica 32 (1904), 584.