Minuscule 886 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a 15th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on paper, with a commentary. The manuscript has not survived in complete condition.
Description
The codex contains the text of the New Testament (except Catholic epistles), with a commentary, on 336 paper leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, 59 lines per page.
The commentary is of authorship of Nicetas of Naupactus in the Gospels, of Theophylact in the Acts of the Apostles and Pauline epistles. The Apocalypse has a commentary of an anonymous writer.
It contains the Eusebian Canon tables (before four Gospels), lists before each biblical book.
Text
Kurt and Barbara Aland gave the textual profile 2091, 992, 21/2, 14s in the Gospels, 151, 32, 31/2, 4s in the Acts, and 1711, 432, 91/2, 23s in the Pauline epistles. On the basis of this profile Alands placed it in Category V. It means it is a representative of the Byzantine text-type.
It was not examined according to the Claremont Profile Method.
History The manuscript is dated by a colophon to the year 1454. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 15th century.
It once belonged to Ignatius, metropolitan, then to Demetrius Leontari, then to Christian Baue in Berlin. The manuscript was described by Henry Stevenson.Henry Stevenson described also minuscule manuscripts: 154, 884, 885, 887. Gregory saw it in 1886. The text of the Apocalypse was collated by Herman C. Hoskier.Herman C. Hoskier, Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse 1 (London 1929), p. 389.
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (698e), Gregory (886e).
Currently the manuscript is housed at the Vatican Library (Reg. gr. 6), in Rome.
See also
List of New Testament minuscules (1–1000) Biblical manuscript Textual criticism
References
Further reading
Henry Stevenson, Codices manuscripti Graeci Reginae Svecorum et Pii Pp. II. Bibliothecae Vaticanae, descripti praeside I.B. Cardinali Pitra, Rom 1888, pp. 4–6.
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