Minuscule 174

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Minuscule 174
Text	Gospels †
Date	1052
Script	Greek
Now at	Vatican Library
Size	24.6 cm by 19 cm
Type	Caesarean text-type
Category	none
Note	member of f13

Minuscule 174 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 109 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the 1052.^[2] It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 132 thick parchment leaves (size 24.6 cm by 19 cm),^[2] with three lacunae (Matthew 1:1-2:1; John 1:1-27; 8:47-21:25).^[3]

The text is written in two columns per page, in 30 lines per page (size of text 18.2 cm by 6.5 cm),^[2] in brown-red ink, the capital letters in red.^[3]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).^[3]

It contains tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin for liturgical use, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel. In subscriptions are given numbers of ρηματα and numbers στιχοι.^[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Caesarean text-type. The manuscript is a member of textual Family 13.

Kurt Aland did not place it in any Category.^[4] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual group Λ in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.^[5]

History

The manuscript was written by the monk Constantine "tabernis habitante", "cum praessent praefecturae Georgilas dux Calabriae".^[6][3] The codex, together with 173, 175, 176, and 177, was brought from the Library of the Basilian monks.^[6]

It was examined by Bianchini, Birch (about 1782), Scholz, J. Rendel Harris, and Ferrar. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.^[3]

It is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Vat. gr. 2002), at Rome.^[2]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Minuscule 13
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 54. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n65/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. 57.
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 162. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n175/mode/2up. 
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. pp. 129, 138. 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. 56. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 
6. ^ ^{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. 216. 

Further reading

• J. Rendel Harris, On the Origin of the Ferrar Group, (Cambridge, 1893).
• W. H. Ferrar, A Collation of Four Important Manuscripts of the Gospels, ed. T. K. Abbott, (Dublin:Macmillan, 1877). Internet Archive
• Soden, Hermann. Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1913.
• Lake, Kirsopp & Silva. Family 13 (The Ferrar Group) The Text According to Mark, Studies and Documents 11, 1941.
• Geerlings, Jacob. Family 13 – The Ferrar Group: The Text According to Matthew, Studies and Documents 19, 1961.
• Ibid for Luke, Studies and Documents 20, 1961.
• Ibid for John, Studies and Documents 21, 1962.

External links

• Minuscule 174 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism