Minuscule 142

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Minuscule 142
Text	New Testament (except Rev.)
Date	11th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Vatican Library
Size	12 cm by 8.3 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Hand	neatly written
Note	marginalia

Minuscule 142 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 151 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it had been assigned to the 11th century.^[2]

Description

The codex contains the text of the New Testament (except Book of Revelation) on 324 parchment leaves (size 12 cm by 8.3 cm).^[2] It containing Book of Psalms.^[3] The order of New Testament books: Gospels, Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles. It contains also Hymns and Psalms.^[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.^[4]

It is neatly written (Scrivener) in one column per page, 30 lines per page.^[2] The letters are very small and beautiful. The ink is brown. It contains tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each book, (synaxaria, Menologion added in 1447), subscriptions at the end of each book, pictures, and the Euthalian Apparatus.^[4] There are many marginal readings in another ancient hand.^[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K^x.^[5] Aland placed it in Category V.^[6] According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to K^x in Luke 10 and Luke 20. In Luke 1 it has mixed Byzantine text.^[5]

History

The manuscript was examined by Birch (about 1782) and Scholz. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.^[4]

It is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Vat. gr. 1210), 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. 55.
3. ^ ^{a b} Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 213. 
4. ^ ^{a b c d} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 157–158. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n169/mode/2up. 
5. ^ ^{a b} 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. 
6. ^ 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: Hinrichs. p. 157–158. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n169/mode/2up. 

External links

• "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php. Retrieved 8 March 2011.