{{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''396''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = Codex Ghigianus | sign = | text = Gospels † | script = Greek | date = 12th century | found = | now at = Vatican Library | cite = | size = {{×|22.4|16.5}} | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = marginalia }}
'''Minuscule 396''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 217 (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/n73/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=62}}</ref> is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.<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 = 70 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}</ref> It has marginalia.
== Description ==
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 115 parchment leaves ({{×|22.4|16.5}}) with one large lacunae (Matthew 1:1-23:27). It is written in one column per page, in 27 lines per page, in silver.<ref name = Aland/>
The text is divided according to numbers of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (''titles'') at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 240 Sections, the last in 16:9), with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).<ref name = Gregory/>
It contains Argumentum and the 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 | pages = 185–186 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n197/mode/2up }}</ref><ref>{{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 = 1894 | location = London | edition = 4 | volume = 1 | page = 235 }}</ref>
== Text ==
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K<sup>x</sup>.<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 = 139 | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref>
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family K<sup>x</sup> in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. In Luke 1 it belongs to the cluster Ω.<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/60 60] | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/60 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration }}</ref>
== History ==
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794–1852).<ref>{{Cite book | last = Scrivener | first = Frederick Henry Ambrose | author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener | title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1894 | location = London | volume = 1 | page = 225 }}</ref>
It was examined by Scholz, Gebhardt (1882), and C. R. Gregory (1886).<ref name = Gregory/>
The manuscript is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Chis. R IV 6 (gr. 6) in Rome.<ref name = Aland/>
== See also ==
* List of New Testament minuscules * Biblical manuscript * Textual criticism
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
== Further reading ==
* {{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 | pages = 185–186 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n197/mode/2up }}
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