Minuscule 96 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 514 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 15th century.K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 52. It has marginalia.
Description
The codex contains the text of the Gospel of John on 62 leaves (size ) with one lacuna (18:18-34). The text is written in one columns per page, 18 lines per page. It is beautifully written. The text is divided according to the (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin (in Latin).
It does not contain the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11).
Kurt Aland did not place the text of the codex in any Category.Kurt und Barbara Aland, Der Text des Neuen Testaments. Einführung in die wissenschaftlichen Ausgaben sowie in Theorie und Praxis der modernen Textkritik. Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1989, , p. 141, 324.
History The manuscript was beautifully written by Johannes Trithemius († 1516), abbot of Sponheim. Then it belonged to Jan Cornarius († Jena 1558) Achates Cornarius († Kreuznach 1573). In 1607 it was received from Abraham Scultetus by George Hackwell, for the Oxford University library.
It was examined by Ussher (for Walton), Mill (as Trit.), Griesbach (only chapters 3–4), and Tischendorf. It was used in Walton's Polyglott (Trit). C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.
It is currently housed at the Bodleian Library (MS. Auct. D. 2. 17), at Oxford.
See also
List of New Testament minuscules Biblical manuscript Textual criticism Minuscule 96abs
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