Minuscule 824 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ404 (von Soden), is a 14th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on paper. It has marginalia and liturgical books.
Description The codex contains the entire New Testament, on 366 paper leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, 28 lines per page.
The text of the four Gospels is divided according to the Ammonian Sections, whose numbers of the Ammonian Sections are given at the margin, but with some references to the Eusebian Canons. It contains Euthalian Apparatus.
It contains tables of the before each sacred book (with a Harmony), portrait of Mark Evangelist, lectionary markings at the margin for liturgical use, incipits, , liturgical books with hagiographies: Synaxarion and Menologion, subscriptions at the end of each book, numbers of , and Verse.
The order of books is usual: Gospels, Book of Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles (Hebrews followed Philemon), and Apocalypse.
According to Scrivener it is beautiful codex.
Text The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kr. Aland placed it in Category V.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kr in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20, as a perfect member of the family.
The text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is marked by an obelus. In Revelation 5,10 it has textual variant ἡμᾶς. Other manuscripts have αὐτούς.H. C. Hoskier, Concerning of the Apocalypse, 1929, vol. I, p. 156.
History
C. R. Gregory dated the manuscript to the 14th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 14th century.
The manuscript was examined by Antonio Rocci in 1882.Antonio Rocci, Codices cryptenses, seu Abbatiae Cryptae Ferratae in Tusculano digesti et illustrati (Tusculanum 1883), pp. 1-2. It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (622) and Gregory (824e, 267a, 316p, 113r). Gregory saw it in 1886. In 1908 Gregory gave one siglum for it – 824.
Currently the manuscript is housed at the Biblioteca della Badia (A' α. 1), in Grottaferrata.
See also
List of New Testament minuscules Biblical manuscript Textual criticism Minuscule 825
References
Further reading
Antonio Rocci, Codices cryptenses, seu Abbatiae Cryptae Ferratae in Tusculano digesti et illustrati (Tusculanum 1883), pp. 1–2.