Minuscule 880


Minuscule 880, ε526, is a 15th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on paper. It has survived in complete condition.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 355 paper leaves. The text is written in one column per page, 17 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, but without references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains pictures and the large decorated initial letters at the beginning of each Gospel. It has lectionary markings at the margin for liturgical reading. According to F. H. A. Scrivener it is "a fine Evangelium".

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kx in Luke 1, Luke 10 and Luke 20. It belongs to the textual cluster 17.

History

The manuscript is commonly dated by former and present palaeographers to the 15th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 15th century. It was written by George Hermonymus, the Spartan, who settled at Paris in 1472. In Paris Hermonymus was a scribe, scholar and lecturer. He was a teacher for Reuchlin and Budeus.
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener, Gregory. Gregory saw it in 1886.
It was examined and described by Ernesto Feron and Fabiano Battaglini.
Currently the manuscript is housed at the Vatican Library, in Rome.