Minuscule 254

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Minuscule 254
Text	New Testament (except Gospels)
Date	14th century
Script	Greek
Now at	National Library of Greece
Size	25 cm by 17 cm
Type	Alexandrian/Byzantine
Category	III/V
Note	marginalia

Minuscule 254 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ΟΘ⁴² (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on papert. Palaeographically it had been assigned to the 11th century.^[2] Formerly it was labelled by 251^a, 301^p, 122^r.^[3] Scrivener labelled it by 201^a, 396^p, 86^r.^[4] It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts, Catholic epistles, Paul, Book of Revelation on 453 paper leaves (25 cm by 17 cm), with lacunae at the beginning and end. The text is written in 1 column per page, 42 lines per page.^[2] The biblical text is surrounded by a commentary (catena).^[3]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin.^[3]

It contains prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before sacred books, and Menologion. It has commentaries of Theophylact and Andreas Caesariensis.^[3][4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type in the Catholic epistles, and the Byzantine text-type elsewhere. Kurt Aland placed it in Category III in Catholic epistles and in Category V elsewhere.^[5]

History

The manuscript was examined by Matthaei and Hoskier. Hoskier collated text of the Apocalypse.

C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.^[3] Formerly it was labelled by 251^a, 301^p, 122^r.^[3] In 1908 Gregory gave number 254 for it.^[1]

Currently the manuscript is housed at the National Library of Greece (490) in Athens.^[2]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 57. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n67/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. 62.
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 284. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n297/mode/2up. 
4. ^ ^{a b} 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. 298. 
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. 132. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 

Further reading

• C. F. Matthei, Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine (Riga, 1782-1788). (as 11)
• Herman C. Hoskier, Concernig the Text of the Apocalypse (London 1929), vol. 1, pp. 747-751.

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