Minuscule 718

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''718''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels † | script = Greek | date = 14th century | found = | now at = Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge | cite = | size = {{×|16.3|12.5}} | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = – }}

'''Minuscule 718''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε352 (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. 177.</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=73}}</ref> is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th 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 = 90 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}</ref><ref name = INTF>[http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php Handschriftenliste] at the Münster Institute</ref> Scrivener labelled it as 736<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 = 4 | location = London | page = 269 }}</ref>

== Description ==

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 254 parchment leaves (size {{×|16.3|12.5}}), with some lacunae.<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 | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | page = 216 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n229/mode/2up }}</ref> The text of John 18:39-21:25 was supplied by a later hand.<ref name = Gregory/>

The text is written in one columns per page, 24 lines per page.<ref name = Aland/> The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin of the text and their {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (''titles'') are given at the top. The text is also divided according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 234 Sections, the last section in 16:15), which numbers are given at the margin, but without references to the Eusebian Canons. A references to the Eusebian Canons were added by a later hand, but only at the beginning of Matthew.<ref name = Gregory/>

The manuscript contains hypotheses, lists of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel. It contains lectionary markings, ''incipits'' (beginning of church lessons marked), Synaxarion, Menologion, and subscriptions (Jerusalem Colophon).<ref name = Scrivener/><ref name = Gregory/>

It contains many marginal notes.<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 family K<sup>x</sup> in Luke 1 and Luke 10. In Luke 20 it represents Πa.<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/65 65] | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/65 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration }}</ref>

The readings are sometimes curious.<ref name = Scrivener/>

== History ==

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 11th or 12th century, Dean Burgon to the 12th century, Gregory dated it to the 14th century.<ref name = Gregory/> Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 14th century.<ref name="INTF"/>

The manuscript was bought from book dealer Muller, in London.<ref name = Gregory/>

It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (736) and Gregory (718). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1883.<ref name = Gregory/> The text was collated by H. B. Swete.<ref name = Scrivener/>

At present the manuscript is housed at the Conville and Caius (MS 781/819) in Cambridge.<ref name = Aland/><ref name = INTF/>

== References ==

== Further reading ==

* {{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 216 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n229/mode/2up }}

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