Minuscule 30
| New Testament manuscript | |
| Text | Gospels |
|---|---|
| Date | 15th-century |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | National Library of France |
| Size | 22.7 cm by 14.9 cm |
| Type | Byzantine text-type |
| Category | V |
| Note | close to minuscules 17, 70 marginalia |
Minuscule 30 is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament Gospels, written on paper. It is designated by the siglum 30. in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts, and ε 522 in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts.[1] Using the study of comparatie handwriting styles (palaeography), it has been assigned to the 15th century.[2][3] It was formerly known as Colbertinus 4444. It has marginal notes.
Description
[edit]The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book format), containing the complete text of the four Gospels written on 313 paper leaves (sized 22.7 cm by 14.9 cm).[2][4][3] The text is written in one column per page, 14 lines per page.[2][4][3]
The text is divided according to the chapters (known as κεφαλαια / kephalaia, whose numbers are given in the margin in both Greek and Latin numerals, and their titles (known as τιτλοι / titloi) written at the top of the pages.[2][4] There is no other division according to the Ammonian Sections or the Eusebian Canons (both early systems of division to the Gospels, usually used in manuscripts of the New Testament).[4]
BIblical scholar Frederick H. A Scrivener suggested it was made by the same copyist who copied Minuscule 17 and 70 (both copied by George Hermonymus), whose text it much resembles.[5]
Text
[edit]The Greek text of the codex is considered to be a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Biblical scholar Kurt Aland placed it in Category V of his New Testament Manuscript classification system.[6] Category V manuscripts are described as "manuscripts with a purely or predominantly Byzantine text."[6]: 336
According to the Claremont Profile Method (a specific analysis of textual data), it represents the textual family K in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.[7] It belongs to the textual cluster 17 along with the minuscule manuscripts 70, 120, 287, 288, and 880.[7]: 95
History
[edit]The earliest history of the manuscript is unknown. It once belonged to J. B. Hantin, a French numismatic. It was taken from Hantin's library by Bishop Moore in 1706.[4] It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by textual critic Johann J. Wettstein, who gave it the number 30.[6]: 72
It was examined and described by biblical scholar John Mill, who cited it is Colbertinus 4, and by biblical scholars Johann M. A. Scholz (1794-1852),[5] and Paulin Martin.[8] Scholz found that its text much resembles minuscule 17. Biblical scholar Caspar René Gregory saw the manuscript in 1884.[4]
The manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 15th-century.[3] It is currently housed at the National Library of France (shelf number Gr. 100) in Paris.[2][3]
See also
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References
[edit]- ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament [The Greek Manuscripts of the New Testament] (in German). Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs. p. 49.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Aland, Kurt; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments [A Concise List of the Greek Manuscripts of the New Testament] (in German). Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 48.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Liste Handschriften: Minuscule 30". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 2026-07-28.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes [Textual Criticism of the New Testament] (in German). Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 135.
- 1 2 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.
- 1 2 3 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. Translated by Erroll F. Rhodes. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- 1 2 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.
- ↑ Martin, Jean-Pierre-Paul (1883). Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris [Technical Description of the Greek New Testament manuscripts held in Paris libraries] (in French). Paris: Maisonneuve fréres et C. Leclerc. p. 41.
