Minuscule 136

Minuscule 136

New Testament manuscript

Text Matthew, Mark
Date 13th century
Script Greek
Now at Vatican Library
Size 24.7 cm by 17 cm
Type Byzantine text-type
Category V

Minuscule 136 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Zε 31 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on cotton paper leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.[2]

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Matthew and Gospel of Mark on 235 cotton paper leaves (size 24.7 cm by 17 cm),[2] with a commentary of Euthymius Zigabenus. It has a lacuna at the end (Mark 15:1-fin).[3]

It contains lacuna at the end of the Gospel of Mark 15:1-16:20. The text is written in one column per page, 32 lines per page.[4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[5]

History

It is dated by the INTF to the 13th century.[2] The manuscript was examined by Birch (about 1782) in Gospel of Matthew about 1782. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.[4]

It is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Vat. gr. 665), at Rome.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 53.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 54.
  3. ↑ 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. 213.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments 1. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs. p. 157.
  5. ↑ Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.

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