Minuscule 112

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Minuscule 112
Text	Gospels
Date	11th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Bodleian Library
Size	14.5 cm by 11.3 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Hand	beautifully written
Note	marginalia

Minuscule 112 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 146 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.^[2] The manuscript has complex contents ad full marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 167 parchment leaves (14.5 cm by 11.3 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 33 lines per page.^[2] The large initial letters in gold.^[3]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons (in Matthew 1-Mark 2 in the same line).^{[n 1][3]}

It contains the Epistle to Carpian, the Eusebian tables, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) are placed before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), synaxaria, Menologion, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, and portraits of the Evangelists. According to Scrivener it is "a very beautiful copy".^[4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[5]

According to the Claremont Profile Method in represents K^x in Luke 1 and Luke 20; in Luke 10 no profile was made. It creates textual cluster 112.^[6]

History

The manuscript was examined by Scholz, who collated it partially.^[4] C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.^[3]

It is housed at the Bodleian Library (E. D. Clarke 10) at Oxford.^[2]

See also

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

Notes

1. ^ In the same way arranged codices 192, 198, 212, 267, 507, 583, 584.

References

1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 52. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n63/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. 53.
3. ^ ^{a b c} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 153. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n165/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. 210. 
5. ^ Kurt Aland, and Barbara Aland, "The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism", trans. Erroll F. Rhodes, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995, p. 138.
6. ^ 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. 54. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 153. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n165/mode/2up. 

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