Minuscule 137

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Minuscule 137
Name	Codex Vaticanus 756
Text	Gospels
Date	12th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Vatican Library
Size	28.6 cm by 21.5 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	marginalia

Minuscule 137 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A¹⁵³ (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.^[2] It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 300 thick parchment leaves (size 28.6 cm by 21.5 cm),^[2] with a commentary.^[3] The text is written in one column per page, 19 lines per page (size of column 14.5 by 11.8 cm).^[4]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (Mark 233 – 16:8; in a commentary 234 – 16:9), (no references to the Eusebian Canons).^[4]

It contains tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, synaxaria, Menologion, and pictures.^[4] Victor's commentary to Mark.^[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 it represents textual family K^x in Luke 1 and Luke 10. In Luke 20 it has a mixture of the Byzantine text-types. It creates textual cluster 137.^[6]

History

At the end we read: κσ φραγκισκος ακκιδας ευγενες κολασσευς... ρωμη ηγαγε το παρον βιβλιον ετει απο αδαμ ζφω [A.D. 1583], μηνι ιουλιω, ινδ. ια.^[3] It means the manuscript was brought to Rome in 1583.^[4]

It was partially examined by Birch (about 1782). C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.^[4]

It is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Vat. gr. 756), 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} 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. ^ ^{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. 213. 
4. ^ ^{a b c d e f} 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. 
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. 55. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 

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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