Minuscule 177

New Testament manuscripts
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Minuscule 177
Text	Acts, Paul, Rev.
Date	11th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Bavarian State Library
Size	26.5 cm by 21 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	close to family Kx marginalia

Minuscule 177 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 106 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.^[2] Formerly it was labelled by 179^a, 128^p, and 82^r. It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Pauline epistles, and Book of Revelation on 225 parchment leaves (size 26.5 cm by 21 cm).^[2] The text is written in one column per page, in 25 lines per page.^[2]

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.^[3]

It contains prolegomena, fragments of the Eusebian Canon tables, numbers of στιχοι at the end of each book, and marginal notes to the Pauline epistles.^[3] It has and treatise of Pseudo-Dorotheus on the Seventy disciples and twelve apostles (as codices 82, 93, 459, 613, 617, 699).^[4]

Text

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

The text is very close to the Textus Receptus.^[4] It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.^[6]

It contains the Comma Johanneum (in 1 John 5:7) at the margin added in the 17th or 18th century.

History

The manuscript once belonged to Zomozerab, the Bohemian. The portion of the manuscript which contains the text of the Apocalypse was collated by Franz Delitzsch.^[4] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1887.^[3] Formerly it was labelled by 179^a, 128^p, and 82^r. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 177 to it.^[1]

It is currently housed at the Bavarian State Library (Gr. 211), at Munich.^[2]

See also

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

References

1. ^ ^{a b} 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} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 279. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n291/mode/2up. 
4. ^ ^{a b c} 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. 297. 
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. 56. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 

Further reading

• F. Delitzsch, Handschriftliche Funde 2 (Leipzig, 1862), pp. 45-48.

External links

• Minuscule 177 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism