{{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''286''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = '''1432''' | found = | now at = Bibliothèque nationale de France | cite = | size = {{×|21.7|14}} | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = marginalia }}
'''Minuscule 286''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 528 (Soden),<ref name = Gregory1908>{{cite book|last=Gregory|first=Caspar René|author-link=Caspar René Gregory|title=Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament|url=https://archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n69/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=58}}</ref> is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1432.<ref name = Aland>{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = K. | author-link = Kurt Aland |author2=M. Welte |author3=B. Köster |author4=K. Junack | title = Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments | publisher = Walter de Gruyter | year = 1994 | location = Berlin, New York | page = 64 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}</ref> It has marginalia.
== Description ==
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 264 paper leaves ({{×|21.7|14}}). The text is written in one column per page, in 21 lines per page.<ref name = Aland/>
The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (''titles of chapters'') at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 232 Sections, the last in 16:6), with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).<ref name = Gregory/>
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel.<ref name = Gregory>{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 176 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n189/mode/2up }}</ref><ref name = Scrivener/>
It contains the Paschal Canon for the years 1432–1502.<ref name = Gregory/>
== Text ==
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden did not assign it to any of the textual families.<ref name = Wisse/> Aland placed it in Category V.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland | last2 = Aland | first2 = Barbara | author-link2 = Barbara Aland | others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) | title = The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1995 | location = Grand Rapids | page = 138 | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref> According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents text of K<sup>x</sup>.<ref name = Wisse>{{Cite book | last = Wisse | first = Frederik | title = The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1982 | location = Grand Rapids | page = [https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/58 58] | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/58 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration }}</ref>
== History ==
The manuscript was written by monk Calistus, with the Paschal canon for the years 1432–1502.<ref name = Gregory/> The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794–1852).<ref name = Scrivener>{{Cite book | last = Scrivener | first = Frederick Henry Ambrose | author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |author2=Edward Miller | title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1861 | location = London | edition = 4 | volume = 1 | page = 227 }}</ref>
It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.<ref>Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, ''Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris'' (Paris 1883), p. 70</ref> C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.<ref name = Gregory/>
The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 96) at Paris.<ref name = Aland/>
== See also ==
* List of New Testament minuscules * Biblical manuscript * Textual criticism
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
== Further reading ==
* Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, ''Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris'' (Paris 1883), p. 70.
== External links == * {{Cite web|url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php|title=Liste Handschriften|publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research|access-date=8 February 2011|location=Münster}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0286}} Category:Greek New Testament minuscules Category:15th-century biblical manuscripts Category:Bibliothèque nationale de France collections