Minuscule 91

Minuscule 91

New Testament manuscript

Name Codex Perronianus
Text Acts, Paul, Rev. †
Date 11th century
Script Greek
Now at Bibliothèque nationale de France
Size 32.4 cm by 23.7 cm
Type Byzantine text-type
Category none
Note marginalia

Minuscule 91 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), O14 (Soden),[1] formerly known as Codex Perronianus 10, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.[2] Formerly it was dated to the 10th century (Scrivener, Gregory). Formerly it was labelled by 12a, 16p and 4r. It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Acts, Catholic epistles, Paul, Rev., with some lacunae, on 313 parchment leaves (32.4 cm by 23.7 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 40 lines per page.[2]

The text is divided according to the κεφάλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the τίτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages.[3]

It contains Prolegomena, tables of the κεφάλαια (tables of contents) before each book, Synaxarion, Menologion.[4] It contains a commentaries. The commentary on the Acts and Epistles is that of the pseudo-Oecumenius; that on the Book of Revelation is that of Arethas of Caesarea.[3]

Hebrews is placed before 1 Timothy.[3]

Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.[5]

History

The manuscript belonged to the Medicis. Janus Lascaris presented it in 1518 to Pietro Merieli.[4] Donatus of Verona in 1532 used it for the first edition of works of Oecumenius.[3]

It once belonged to the "S. Taurini monasterium Ebriocense", then to Cardinal Perron's († 1618).[3]

Bernard de Montfaucon sent John Mill extracts of this codex.[4]

It was examined by Wettstein, Griesbach, Scholz, Grafton for Alford, and Paulin Martin.[6] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.[3]

Formerly it was labelled by 12a, 16p and 4r. In 1908 Gregory gave number 91 for it.[1]

It is currently housed in at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 219), at Paris.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 51.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 52.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 264.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 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. 285.
  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.
  6. ↑ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs relatifs au Nouveau Testament, conservés dans les bibliothèques de Paris (Paris 1883), p. 109

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