Minuscule 692

{{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''692''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels † | script = Greek | date = 12th century | found = | now at = British Library | cite = | size = {{×|20.8|15.5}} | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = }}

'''Minuscule 692''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε1284 (von Soden),<ref name = Soden>Hermann von Soden, ''Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte'' (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 167.</ref><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/n83/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=72}}</ref> is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. The manuscript is lacunose.<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 = 88 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}</ref><ref name = INTF>[http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php Handschriftenliste] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928142507/http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php |date=2013-09-28 }} at the Münster Institute</ref> Scrivener labelled it by 596<sup>e</sup>.<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, vol. 1 | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1894 | edition = fourth | location = London | page = 260 }}</ref>

== Description ==

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Matthew, Gospel of Mark, and Gospel of Luke on 237 parchment leaves (size {{×|20.8|15.5}}),<ref name = Aland/> with lacuna (Luke 2:7-21). The text is written in one column per page, 23 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, Vol. 1 | publisher = Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | page = 213 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n225/mode/2up }}</ref>

It contains Prolegomena, the tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''contents'') are placed before each Gospel, numbers of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''chapters'') are given at the left margin, the {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (''titles''), Ammonian Sections (241 sections, the last section in 16:20), a references to the Eusebian Canons (in blue), and illuminated headings to the Gospels.<ref name = Scrivener/><ref name = Gregory/>

According to Scrivener it is "exquisitely written", with great resemble to Minuscule 71 in text.<ref name = Scrivener/> Edward A. Guy recognised this resemblance as the first.<ref name = Gregory/>

== Text ==

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.<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 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n161 139] | url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref>

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual cluster M 27.<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/64 64] | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/64 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration }}</ref>

== History ==

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 14th century, Gregory dated it to the 12th or 13th century.<ref name = Gregory/> Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 12th century.<ref name="INTF"/>

The manuscript was bought from Spyridion Lambros from Athens in 1859, along with 22 other manuscripts of the New Testament (codices: 269, 270, 271, 272, 688, 689, 690, 691, 693, etc.).<ref name = Gregory/>

It was added to the list of New Testament manuscript by Scrivener (596) and Gregory (692).<ref name = Scrivener/>

It was examined by S. T. Bloomfield and Dean Burgon. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1883.<ref name = Gregory/>

The manuscript is currently housed at the British Library (Add MS 22740) in London.<ref name = Aland/><ref name = INTF/>

== References ==

== Further reading ==

* S. T. Bloomfield, [https://books.google.com/books?id=PNgtAAAAYAAJ ''Critical Annotations: Additional and Supplementary on the New Testament''] (1860).

{{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0692}} Category:Greek New Testament minuscules Category:12th-century biblical manuscripts Category:British Library additional manuscripts