Codex Montfortianus
Minuscule · 61 · 16th century
A Greek New Testament copied in England about 1520, named for Thomas Montfort, who owned it in the 17th century. It has 1 John 5:7, and Erasmus, printing the verse in his third edition (1522), cited a manuscript in Britain, almost certainly this one.
Contents
The whole New Testament.
Where It Is Kept
Trinity College, Dublin (MS 30).
Cited For
- 1 John 5:7–8 “in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one …”
Minuscules are written in the small joined-up hand that replaced capitals from the 9th century on; most Greek manuscripts are minuscules. They are numbered 1, 2, 3, and so on. A family (f¹, f¹³) is a group copied from a common ancestor; ᵐᵍ means the reading is in the margin.
