Minuscule 24 | |
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Text | Matthew 27:20-Mark 4:22 |
Date | 10th century |
Script | Greek |
Now at | National Library of France |
Size | 15.2 x 7.7 cm |
Type | Byzantine text-type |
Category | V |
Minuscule 24 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A18 (von Soden).[1] It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on vellum. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 10th century.[2]
Contents |
The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Matthew and Mark on 240 parchment leaves, with lacuna in Matthew 27:20-Mark 4:22. The text is written in one column per page, the biblical text in 25 lines and text of commentary in 58 lines per page. The initial letters in red, ink is brown.[3]
The biblical text in Gospel of Mark is surrounded by a catena, in Mark of authorship of Victorinus.[3]
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 234, last in 16:9), with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).[3]
It contains Prolegomena, table of the κεφαλαια (table of contents) precedes Gospel of Mark, and synaxaria (added by a later hand).[4]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[5]
The manuscript was examined and described by Griesbach, Scholz, Cramer, Henri Omont, and Paulin Martin.[6] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.[3]
It is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 178) at Paris.[2]