Minuscule 728 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θε412 (von Soden),Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 267. is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament written on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century. The manuscript has complex contents.Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute Scrivener labelled it as 746e.
Description
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 231 parchment leaves (size ), without any lacunae.
The text is written in two columns per page, 60-68 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the (chapters), with their (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, but without references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains Prolegomena, lists of the (tables of contents), subscriptions at the end of the Gospels, numbers of , Synaxarion, lectionary markings at the margin, and pictures. It has a commentary of Theophylact.
Text
Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.
It was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method.
History
Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 13th century, Gregory dated it to the 14th century. The manuscript is currently dated by the INTF to the 14th century.
It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (746) and Gregory (728). It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au N.bT., conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 95 Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.
The manuscript is now housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 181) in Paris.
See also
List of New Testament minuscules Biblical manuscript Textual criticism
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