Minuscule 136

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Minuscule 136
Text	Matthew, Mark
Date	13th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Vatican Library
Size	24.7 cm by 17 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V

Minuscule 136 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Z^{ε 31} (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on cotton paper leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.^[2]

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Matthew and Gospel of Mark on 235 cotton paper leaves (size 24.7 cm by 17 cm),^[2] with a commentary of Euthymius Zigabenus. It has a lacuna at the end (Mark 15:1-fin).^[3]

It contains lacuna at the end of the Gospel of Mark 15:1-16:20. The text is written in one column per page, 32 lines per page.^[4]

Text

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

History

It is dated by the INTF to the 13th century.^[2] The manuscript was examined by Birch (about 1782) in Gospel of Matthew about 1782. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.^[4]

It is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Vat. gr. 665), at Rome.^[2]

See also

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

References

1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 53. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n63/mode/2up. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d} K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 54.
3. ^ 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. 213. 
4. ^ ^{a b} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 157. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n169/mode/2up. 
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. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 157. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n169/mode/2up. 

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