Minuscule 2

Minuscule 2

New Testament manuscript infobox
form=Minuscule
number="'2"


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text= New Testament (except Rev)
script= Greek
date= 12/13th century
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now at= University of Basel
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type= Byzantine text-type
cat= V
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Minuscule 2 (Gregory-Aland); Soden α 253. It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on 248 parchment leaves (19.5 by 15.2 cm), dated paleographically to the 12/13th century.K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 47. ]

Description

The codex contains the Gospels. Written in minuscule, in 1 column per page, 20 lines per page.

The codex is located now in University of Basel (A.N. IV. 1) in Basel.

The Greek text of the Gospels is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.

History of the codex

This codex was chiefly used by Desiderius Erasmus as the basis for his first edition of the Novum Testamentum (1516). [W.W. Combs, "Erasmus and the textus receptus, DBSJ 1 (Spring 1996)", 45. ] In result its readings became a basis for the Textus Receptus. Erasmus received this codex from the dominican monks at the Basel. Robert Estienne used this manuscript in his Editio Regia (1550)'.

See also

* List of New Testament minuscules
* Textus Receptus
* Textual criticism

References

Further reagings

* C. C. Tarelli, "Erasmus’s Manuscripts of the Gospels", JTS XLIV (1943), 155-162.
* K. W. Clark, "Observations on the Erasmian Notes in Codex 2, in Studia Evangelica", ed. F.L. Cross, K. Aland, et al., T & U 73 (Berlin 1959), pp. 749-756.


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