Minuscule 212

New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionaries
Minuscule 212
Text Gospels †
Date 11th century
Script Greek
Now at Biblioteca Marciana
Size 17.5 cm by 13 cm
Type Byzantine
Category V
Hand beautifully written
Note marginalia

Minuscule 212 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 128 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.[2] It has marginalia.

Contents

Description

The codex contains almost complete text of the four Gospels, with some lacunae, on 273 parchment leaves (size 17.5 cm by 13 cm),[2] in octavo (3 leaves in quires). The leaves 39-52, 190-201, 256-273 were supplied by a later hand, probably from the 15th century.[3]

The text is written in one column per page, 23 lines per page.[2] The manuscript is beautifully written. The first page in gold, with pictures, and most elaborate illuminations.[4]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 241), originally without references to the Eusebian Canons. The references to the Eusebian Canons were added by a later hand (in the same line as Ammonian Section numbers - see Minuscule 112).[3]

The manuscript contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, lectionary markings at the margin for liturgical reading, and beautiful pictures.[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx.[5] Aland placed it in Category V.[6]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kx in Luke 10 and Luke 20. In Luke 1 it has mixture of the Byzantine text-families.[5]

The text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is marked by an asterisk (※).[7]

History

The manuscript was examined by Birch[8] and Burgon. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.[3]

It is currently housed at the Biblioteca Marciana (Gr. Z 540), at Venice.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 55. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n65/mode/2up. 
  2. ^ a b c d K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 60.
  3. ^ a b c d Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 168. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n181/mode/2up. 
  4. ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 220. 
  5. ^ a b Wisse, Frederik (1982). The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 57. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 
  6. ^ 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. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
  7. ^ A. Birch, Variae Lectiones ad Textum IV Evangeliorum, Haunie 1801, p. 429
  8. ^ A. Birch, Variae Lectiones ad Textum IV Evangeliorum, Haunie 1801, p. LXV

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