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New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionariesMinuscule 12 Text Gospels Date 14th century Script Greek Now at National Library of France Size 26 cm by 20 cm Type Byzantine text-type Category V Minuscule 12 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A137 (Von Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment, dated palaeographically to the 14th century.[2]
Contents
Description
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels, on 294 parchment leaves (26 cm by 20 cm), with a commentaries.[2] The text is written in one column per page, biblical text in 21 lines and text of commentary in 57 lines per page.[3]
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters) whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons.[3]
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, Menologion, synaxaria, and subscriptions at the end of the Gospels.[3]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type, with a few alien readings.[4] Aland placed it in Category V.[5]
It was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method.[6]
The text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is omitted.[7]
History
It was examined and described by Wettstein, Griesbach,[8] and Paulin Martin.[9] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.[3]
The codex now is located at the National Library of France (Gr. 230) at Paris.[2]
See also
References
- ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 48. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n59/mode/2up.
- ^ 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. 47.
- ^ a b c d Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 131. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n143/mode/2up.
- ^ Tischendorf, Novum Testamentum Graece. Editio Septima, Lipsiae 1859, p. CXCV.
- ^ 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. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ 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. 53. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
- ^ 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. 192.
- ^ Griesbach, Symbolae critique, p. CXLIV
- ^ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 24-25
Categories:- Greek New Testament minuscules
- 14th-century biblical manuscripts
- Bibliothèque nationale de France collections
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