Minuscule 35

Minuscule 35 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ309 (von Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on 328 parchment leaves (18.6 cm by 13.9 cm). Paleographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. The manuscript has complex contents, marginalia, and many corrections.

Minuscule 35

New Testament manuscript
Text	NT
Date	11th century
Script	Greek
Found	ca. 1650
Now at	National Library of France
Size	18.6 cm by 13.9 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	member of K^r marginalia

Description

The codex contains the entire New Testament with many corrections. The order of books: Gospels, Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles, and Book of Revelation. The text is written in 1 column per page, in 27 lines per page.^[2][3] It has Homilie of Chrysostomos at the end of the Pauline epistles.^[4]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, with the τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is no division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections with references to the Eusebian Canons.^[4]

It contains tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each book, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), αναγνωσεις (lessons), liturgical books with hagiographies (Synaxarion and Menologion), subscriptions at the end of each book (with numbers of στιχοι), and many corrections.^[5] It has lectionary equipment for the Acts, the Euthalian Apparatus for the Catholic and Pauline epistles, and scholia for the Book of Revelation.^[4]

Text

It has very regular orthography, and differs only slightly from familiar printed editions of the Byzantine text.^[6] Currently it is considered to be one of the best witness of the Byzantine text-type,^[7] and became the basis for The Gospel According to John in the Byzantine Tradition.^[8] Wilbur N. Pickering believes subgroup 35 is the original text of the entire New Testament and has published The Greek New Testament According to Family 35. ^[9]

According to Hermann von Soden it is a member of the textual family Family K^r. According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family K^r in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It creates the subgroup 35.^[10]

To the subgroup 35 (lacks reading 37 in Luke 1) belong the manuscripts: 141, 170, 204, 394, 402, 516 (corr), 521, 553, 660 (corr), 758 (prima manu), 769, 797, 928, 1250, 1482, 1487, 1493, 1559, 1572, 1600, 1694 (prima manu), 2204, 2261, and 2554.^[11]

In 1 Corinthians 2:4 it reads πειθοι σοφιας (plausible wisdom), the reading is supported only by Old-Latin manuscripts Codex Augiensis and Codex Boernerianus.^[12]

For publication in The Gospel According to John in the Byzantine Tradition the text of the manuscript was changed in only 18 places in the Gospel of John. In 10 places a different orthography was adopted:^[13]

4:9 συχρωνται changed to συγχρωνται

5:8 εγερται changed to εγειρε

5:8 κραββατον changed to κραβαττον

5:9 κραββατον changed to κραβαττον

5:10 κραββατον changed to κραβαττον

5:11 κραββατον changed to κραβαττον

5:12 κραββατον changed to κραβαττον

12:6 εμελλεν changed to εμελεν

18:23 δαιρεις changed to δερεις

20:16 ραβουνι changed to ραββουνι

In 8 places the edited text follows the corrector instead of the first hand because of an error of the first hand:

4:13 υδατος 35* τουτο 35^c

4:18 ο 35* ον 35^c

10:1 αμην 35* αμην αμην 35^c

10:16 [3 blank spaces] 35* εχω α ουκ εστιν 35^c

10:25 αυτοις αυτοις 35* αυτοις 35^c

12:2 om. 35* ην 35^c

16:17 om. 35* υπαγω 35^c

16:19 om. 35* ειπον 35^c

Sometimes scribe of 35 presented alternative to the running text. In these four instances the editors preferred to leave the uncorrected text as the base text and note the correction in the critical apparatus:

5:4 εταρασσε το 35* εταρασσετο το 35^c

14:3 ετοιμασω 35* ετοιμασαι 35^c

19:38 ο ιωσηφ 35* ιωσηφ 35^c

21:15 om. 35* ο ιησους 35^c

Also, in the edition the text John 7:53-8:11 is marked on the margin by an obelus (÷).^[14] This is in conformity with the practice of the manuscript itself.^[4]

History

The manuscript was dated to the 11th or 12th century.^[4] Currently it has been assigned by the INTF to the 11th century.^[2][3]

Formerly it was held at the Athos peninsula in Great Lavra. Between 1643 and 1653 the manuscript was acquired for the collection of Pierre Séguier (1588-1672), the great-grandfather of Henri-Charles de Coislin, Bishop of Metz.^[6] It became a part of the Fonds Coislin. It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by J. J. Wettstein, who gave it the number 35.^[15]

Bernard de Montfaucon was the first who examined and described this manuscript. Then it was examined and described by Wettstein, Scholz, and Paulin Martin.^[16] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.^[4] The text of Revelation was collated by Hoskier (1929).

It is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Coislin, Gr. 199) in Paris.^[2][3]

See also

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

References

1. Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 49.
2. K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments, Walter de Gruyter, 2nd ed., Berlin, New York 1994, p. 48.
3. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 2014-09-09.
4. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 137.
5. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 195.
6. "The Gospel According to John in the Byzantine Tradition". Introduction to the Printed Edition
7. Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
8. "The Gospel According to John in the Byzantine Tradition", (Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 2007), Introduction, p. IV.
9. Pickering, Wilbur (27 January 2015). The Greek New Testament According to Family 35 (First ed.). ISBN 0997468688.
10. Wisse, Frederik (1982). The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 53. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
11. Wisse, Frederik (1982). The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 93. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
12. UBS3. p. 581.
13. "The Gospel According to John in the Byzantine Tradition", (Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 2007), Introduction, p. XL.
14. "The Gospel According to John in the Byzantine Tradition", (Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 2007), Introduction, p. XLI.
15. Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
16. Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 45-46

Further reading

• Bernard de Montfaucon, Bibliotheca Coisliniana olim Segueriana, Paris: Ludovicus Guerin & Carolus Robustel, 1715, p. 250.
• Herman C. Hoskier, Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse 1 (London, 1929), pp. 32–33.