Minuscule 1253

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Minuscule 1253
Text	Gospels †
Date	15th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Saint Catherine's Monastery
Size	30 cm by 23 cm
Category	none
Note	unique addition in the Lord's Prayer

Minuscule 1253 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θ^ε64 (von Soden). It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on paper. Palaeografically it has been assigned to the 15th century (or about 1200). The manuscript is lacunose.^[1]

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels with a commentaries of Theophylact, written on 209 paper leaves (30 cm by 23 cm). It has two lacunae in Matthew 1:1-2; John 9:3-21.25. The text is written in two columns per page, in 36 and more lines per page.^[2] It contains pictures.^[3]

Text

Aland did not place its text into any Category.^[4] According to the Claremont Profile Method it has mixed text in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.^[5]

In Matthew 6:13, in the Lord's Prayer it has unique addition ὅτι σοῦ ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία, τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας. ἀμήν.

In Matthew 19:16 it reads διδασκαλε αγαθε (good teacher) — C, K, W, Δ, Θ, f¹³, 28, 33, 565, 700, 892^mg, 1009, 1071, 1079, 1195, 1216, 1230, 1241, 1242, 1344, 1546, 1646, 2148, 2174, Byz, Lect, it, vg, syr, cop^sa, arm, eth, Diatessaron.^[6]

In Luke 15:21 it has additional reading ποιησον με ως ενα των μισθιων σου; the reading is supported by Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, Bezae, Monacensis, 33, 700, 1195, 1216, 1230, 1241, 1344, ℓ 13, ℓ 15, ℓ 60, ℓ 80, ℓ 185.^[7]

It contains text of Luke 22:43-44 (Christ's agony).

In John 6:1 it reads της θαλασσης της Γαλιλαιας εις τα μερη της Τιβεριαδος – along with Codex Bezae, Θ, 892, 1009, 1230.^[8]

History

The manuscript was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by C. R. Gregory.

Currently the codex is located in the Saint Catherine's Monastery (Gr. 303) at Sinai.^[1]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules (1001–2000)
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Aland, Kurt; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 119. ISBN 3110119862. 
2. ^ Kurt Aland, "Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum. Locis parallelis evangeliorum apocryphorum et patrum adhibitis edidit", Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1996, p. XXVI.
3. ^ C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 248.
4. ^ 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. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
5. ^ 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. 74. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 
6. ^ The Greek New Testament, ed. K. Aland, A. Black, C. M. Martini, B. M. Metzger, and A. Wikgren, in cooperation with INTF, United Bible Societies, 3rd edition, (Stuttgart 1983), p. 74.
7. ^ The Greek New Testament, ed. K. Aland, A. Black, C. M. Martini, B. M. Metzger, and A. Wikgren, in cooperation with INTF, United Bible Societies, 3rd edition, (Stuttgart 1983), p. 277.
8. ^ UBS3, p. 342

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig. p. 248. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n261/mode/2up. 

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