Minuscule 610

New Testament manuscripts
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Minuscule 610
Text Acts of the Apostles, Pauline epistles
Date 12th century
Script Greek
Now at Bibliothèque nationale de France
Size 28.4 cm by 21.9 cm
Type Byzantine text-type
Category V

Minuscule 610 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A πρ21 (von Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.[2] The manuscript is lacunose. Formerly it was labeled by 130a.[3]

Contents

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles and Catholic epistles on 177 parchment leaves (size 28.4 cm by 21.9 cm), with lacunae (Acts 20:38-22:3; 2 Peter 1:14-3:18; 1 John 4:11 - Jude 8). The text is written in one column per page, 14 lines per page for the biblical text, and 41 lines for the commentary text.[2]

The text of the Catholic epistles is surrounded by a catena.[3][4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is an eclectic. In Book of Acts it has a higher value. Aland placed it in Category III. In the Catholic epistles it is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[5]

Hermann von Soden lists it as Ia1. Other members of this group are: 36, 307, 453, 1678, and 2186.

History

The manuscript was brought from the East to Paris.[4]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Johann Martin Augustin Scholz. It was examined by Martin (p. 122). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.[4]

The manuscript currently is housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 221), at Paris.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 69. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n79/mode/2up. 
  2. ^ a b c K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 83.
  3. ^ a b Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 294. 
  4. ^ a b c Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 275. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n287/mode/2up. 
  5. ^ Aland, Kurt; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 133. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 

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