Minuscule 154

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Minuscule 154
Name	Alexandrino-Vaticanus
Text	Gospels
Date	13th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Vatican Library
Size	26.3 cm by 20.7 cm
Category	none
Note	marginalia

Minuscule 154 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θ^ε402 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on cotton paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.^[2] It has complex contents, and full marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 355 paper leaves (size 26.3 cm by 20.7 cm),^[2] with a Theophylact's commentary.^[3]

The text is written in one column per page, in 40 lines per page.^[2] The paper has brown colour, written in black ink, capital letters in red.^[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. The references to the Eusebian Canons are absent.^[4]

It contains lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), synaxaria, Menologion, numbers of stichoi, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.^[3][4]

At the end of the manuscript is given subscription α υ μ β απριλλ(ιω) ιδ, i.e. "April 14, 1442", it was made by the later hand.^[5]

Text

Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.^[6] It was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method.^[7]

History

Probably the manuscript was written in Italy.^[3]

It was presented by Christina, Queen of Sweden, to Cardinal Dezio Azzolino, and bought from him by Pope Alexander VII (1689–1691), together with the manuscripts 155, 156, and 181.^[3][4]

It was examined and described by Birch (about 1782), Scholz, and Henry Stevenson.^[5] C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.^[4]

It is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Reg. gr. 28), 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. 56.
3. ^ ^{a b c d} 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. 214. 
4. ^ ^{a b c d e} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 159. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n171/mode/2up. 
5. ^ ^{a b} Henry Stevenson, Codices manuscripti Graeci Reginae Svecorum et Pii Pp. II. Bibliothecae Vaticanae, descripti praeside I.B. Cardinali Pitra, Rom 1888, p. 22
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. 
7. ^ 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. 56. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 

Further reading

• Henry Stevenson, Codices manuscripti Graeci Reginae Svecorum et Pii Pp. II. Bibliothecae Vaticanae, descripti praeside I.B. Cardinali Pitra, Rom 1888, p. 22.