Minuscule 2766 is a Greek minuscule manuscript

Manuscript

A manuscript or handwrite is written information that has been manually created by someone or some people, such as a hand-written letter, as opposed to being printed or reproduced some other way...

 of the New Testament

New Testament

The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....

, written on 147 parchment leaves (19.6 cm by 15.5 cm). Paleographically

Palaeography

Palaeography, also spelt paleography is the study of ancient writing. Included in the discipline is the practice of deciphering, reading, and dating historical manuscripts, and the cultural context of writing, including the methods with which writing and books were produced, and the history of...

 it has been assigned to the 13th century.

Description

The codex contains the complete text of the four Gospel

Gospel

A gospel is an account, often written, that describes the life of Jesus of Nazareth. In a more general sense the term "gospel" may refer to the good news message of the New Testament. It is primarily used in reference to the four canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John...

s. The text is written in one column per page, in 20 lines per page. Titles are written in red uncial letters. The title in Mark is written in red semi-uncial letters, but in the rest of the Gospels in red uncial letters. It contains the Eusebian Canons in red.

Kurt Aland

Kurt Aland

Kurt Aland was a German Theologian and Professor of New Testament Research and Church History. He founded the Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung in Münster and served as its first director for many years...

 did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category

Categories of New Testament manuscripts

New Testament manuscripts in Greek are categorized into five groups, according to a scheme introduced in 1981 by Kurt and Barbara Aland in Der Text des Neuen Testaments. The categories are based on how each manuscript relates to the various text-types. Generally speaking, earlier Alexandrian...

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According to the Claremont Profile Method it has Kmix/Cl827/Cl827.

History

The codex now is located in the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection

Kenneth Willis Clark Collection

The Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts in Duke University Library contains ninety-eight manuscripts — in both roll and codex form — dating from the 9th to the 17th century....

 of the Duke University

Duke University

Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...

 (Gk MS 31) at Durham

Durham, North Carolina

Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the county seat of Durham County and also extends into Wake County. It is the fifth-largest city in the state, and the 85th-largest in the United States by population, with 228,330 residents as of the 2010 United States census...

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See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscripts
• Textual criticism
  Textual criticism
  Textual criticism is a branch of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in the texts of manuscripts...
  
  

Further reading

• Clark Kenneth Willis, "Greek New Testament Manuscripts in Duke University Library", Library Notes, no. 27 (April 1953), pp. 6-7.

External links

• Minuscule 2766 at the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts