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Minuscule 39 (in the Gregory-Aland
Biblical manuscript

A Biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. The word Bible comes from the Greek biblion ; manuscript comes from Latin manu and scriptum ....
 numbering), A140 (Von Soden
Biblical manuscript

A Biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. The word Bible comes from the Greek biblion ; manuscript comes from Latin manu and scriptum ....
). It is a Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 minuscule manuscript
Manuscript

A manuscript is any document that is written by hand, as opposed to being printed or reproduced in some other way. The term may also be used for information that is hand-recorded in other ways than writing, for example inscriptions that are chiselled upon a hard material or scratched as with a knife point in plaster or with a stylus on a wa...
 of the New Testament
New Testament

The New Testament is the name given to the second major division of the Christianity Bible, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
, written on vellum. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 11th century.

History It was written in Constantinople by the Patriarch Sergius II (999-1019), in the beginning of the 11th century.






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Minuscule 39 (in the Gregory-Aland
Biblical manuscript

A Biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. The word Bible comes from the Greek biblion ; manuscript comes from Latin manu and scriptum ....
 numbering), A140 (Von Soden
Biblical manuscript

A Biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. The word Bible comes from the Greek biblion ; manuscript comes from Latin manu and scriptum ....
). It is a Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 minuscule manuscript
Manuscript

A manuscript is any document that is written by hand, as opposed to being printed or reproduced in some other way. The term may also be used for information that is hand-recorded in other ways than writing, for example inscriptions that are chiselled upon a hard material or scratched as with a knife point in plaster or with a stylus on a wa...
 of the New Testament
New Testament

The New Testament is the name given to the second major division of the Christianity Bible, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
, written on vellum. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 11th century.

Description


The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospel
Gospel

In Christianity, a gospel is generally one of the first four books of the New Testament that describe the birth, life, ministry, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus....
s on 288 parchment leaves (33.5 cm by 26 cm). It contains a commentary. It does not contains the textes of Matthew 16:2-3 and the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11).

History

It was written in Constantinople by the Patriarch Sergius II (999-1019), in the beginning of the 11th century. In 1218 it was brought by monk Makarius to the Athos
Mount Athos

Mount Athos is a mountain on the peninsula of the same name in Macedonia , of northern Greece, called in Greek language Agion Oros , or in English, "Holy Mountain"....
. It is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France
Bibliothèque nationale de France

The Biblioth?que nationale de France is the National library of France, located in Paris. It is intended to be the repository of all that is published in France....
 (Coislin Gr. 23) at Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
.

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type
Byzantine text-type

The Byzantine text-type is one of several text-types used in textual criticism to describe the textual character of Koine Greek New Testament biblical manuscript....
.

See also


  • List of New Testament minuscules
    List of New Testament minuscules

    A New Testament Lower case is a copy of a portion of the New Testament written in a small, cursive Greek script . Most of the minuscules are still written on parchment....
  • Biblical manuscripts
  • Textual criticism
    Textual criticism

    Textual criticism is a branch of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in the Writing of manuscripts....