Minuscule 245

Minuscule 245

New Testament manuscript

Text Gospels
Date 1199
Script Greek
Now at State Historical Museum
Size 19.5 cm by 15 cm
Type Byzantine text-type
Category V
Note marginalia

Minuscule 245 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1226 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1199.[2] It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 255 parchment leaves (size 19.5 cm by 15 cm).[2] The text is written in one column per page, 21-23 lines per page.[2] The leaves were arranged in quarto.[3]

The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections whose numbers are given at the margin.[3]

It contains the Eusebian Canon tables, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel; it contains lectionary markings at the margin for liturgical reading. Synaxarion and Menologion were added by a later hand.[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[4]

Hermann von Soden lists it as Is (along with codices 157, 235, 291, 713, 1012).

According to the Claremont Profile Method it has mixture of the Byzantine text-families in Luke 1. In Luke 10 and Luke 20 it represents textual cluster 1167.[5]

History

The manuscript was written by John, a priest, in 1199.[6] Formerly the manuscript was held at the monastery Vatopedi at Athos peninsula. It was brought to Moscow, in 1655, by the monk Arsenius, on the suggestion of the Patriarch Nikon, in the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov (1645-1676). The manuscript was collated by C. F. Matthaei.[6]

The manuscript is currently housed at the State Historical Museum (V. 16, S. 278) at Moscow.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 56.
  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. 61.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 171.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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. ↑ 6.0 6.1 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. 224.

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