Minuscule 398

{{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''398''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Acts, Paul | script = Greek | date = 10th century | found = | now at = Cambridge University Library | cite = | size = {{×|17.7|12.2}} | type = eclectic | cat = III/V | hand = | note = }}

'''Minuscule 398''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 189 (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 10th 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> Formerly it was designated by 9^a and 11^p.<ref name = Gregory/>

== Description ==

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, General epistles, and Pauline epistles on 251 parchment leaves ({{×|17.7|12.2}}) with lacunae (Acts 3:6-17; 1 Timothy 4:12-2 Timothy 4:3; Hebrews 7:20-11:10; 11:23-13:25). It is written in one column per page, in 22 lines per page.<ref name = Aland/><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 = 263 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n275/mode/2up }}</ref>

== Text ==

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type with exception for the General epistles. Aland placed it in Category V (except General epistles). The text of General epistles Aland assigned to the Category III.<ref name = Kurt>{{Cite book | last1 = Aland | first1 = 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 = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n154 132] | url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref>

Aland gave for it the following textual profile: Acts 75¹ 28^1/2 4² 1^s, Cath 62¹ 7^1/2 16² 13^s, Paul 158¹ 48^1/2 3² 0^S.<ref name = Kurt/>

: 1: agreements with the Byzantine text : 1/2: agreements with the Byzantine text where it has the same reading as the original text : 2: agreements with the original text : S: independent or distinctive readings ("Sonderlesarten").<ref>{{Cite book | last1 = Aland | first1 = 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 = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n129 107] | url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref>

== History ==

Gregory dated it to the 11th or 12th century.<ref name = Gregory/> Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 10th century.<ref name = Aland/>

The manuscript once belonged to François Vatable, friend of Robert Estienne and professor of Hebrew in Paris. The manuscript probably was used in Editio Regia as ιγ'.<ref name = Gregory/><ref>{{Cite book | last = Scrivener | first = Frederick Henry Ambrose | author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |author2=Edwqard 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 = 284 }}</ref> It was slightly examined by Scholz, who catalogued it twice (as 9^a and 112^a). Fenton Hort examined Catholic epistles. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.<ref name = Gregory/> In 1908 Gregory gave for it number 398.<ref name = GregoryII>{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament | publisher = J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung | year = 1908 | location = Leipzig | page = 62 | url = https://archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n62/mode/2up }}</ref>

In the 18th century it was used as an argument against the authenticity of the Comma Johanneum.<ref>George Travis, [https://books.google.com/books?id=nf0qAAAAYAAJ&dq=Cambridge+%22Kk.+6.4%22&pg=PA410 ''Letters to Edward Gibbon: author of the History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire''], 3rd edition, (London 1794), p. 410.</ref>

Formerly it was designated by 9^a and 11^p.<ref name = Gregory/> In 1908 Gregory gave the number 398 to it.<ref name = Gregory1908/>

The manuscript is currently housed at the Cambridge University Library (Kk. 6.4) in Cambridge.<ref name = Aland/>

== Former 398 == Formerly number 398 (Scholz) belonged to a commentary housed in the Turin National University Library (C. II. 5). It contains 310 leaves (31.1 by 21.8&nbsp;cm), written in 2 columns and 30 lines per page, dated to the 13th century. Gregory saw it in 1886. In 1908 Gregory removed it from the list of the New Testament manuscripts because it is rather a commentary, with incomplete text of the Gospels.<ref name = GregoryII/> It was examined and described by Giuseppe Passini (as 109).<ref>Giuseppe Pasino, ''Codices Manuscripti Bibliohecae Regii Taurinensis Athenaei'', Turin 1742, Teil 2.</ref>

== See also == {{Portal|Bible}}

* List of New Testament minuscules * Biblical manuscript * Textual criticism

== References ==

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== Further reading ==

* {{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 263 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n275/mode/2up }}

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