Minuscule 744 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θε22 (von Soden),Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 262. is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament written on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. The manuscript has no complex contents.Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute Scrivener labelled it as 759e.
Description
The codex contains the four Gospels on 367 parchment leaves (size ), with one lacuna. Matthew 1:1-3:6 was added later.
The text is written in one 27-line column per page.
It contains tables of the to Matthew (added later), the (titles) in Matthew, and portrait of Evangelist Luke.
It has a commentary of Theophylact.
Text
Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.
It was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method.
History
Bernard de Montfaucon and Henri Omont dated the manuscript to the 11th century; Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 15th or 16th century; Gregory dated it to the 13th century. The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 13th century.
The manuscript once belonged to the monastery of the St. Justina in Padua (as Minuscule 367).
The manuscript was examined by Bernard de Montfaucon,Bernard de Montfaucon, Diarium italicum, p. 78 Paulin Martin,Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au N.T., conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 99 and Henri Omont.
It joined the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (759) and Gregory (744). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.
The manuscript is now at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Supplément Gr. 219) in Paris.
See also
List of New Testament minuscules Biblical manuscript Textual criticism Minuscule 743
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