Minuscule 208

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Minuscule 208
Text	Gospels
Date	11th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Biblioteca Marciana
Size	17.9 cm by 14.4 cm
Type	Byzantine
Category	V
Note	marginalia

Minuscule 208 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 127 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.^[2] It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 239 parchment leaves (size 17.9 cm by 14.4 cm).^[2] The text is written in one column per page, in 23 lines per page.^[3]

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. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 233, 16:8), with references to the Eusebian Canons.^[3]

It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian tables, and tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel.^[4][3]

The text of John 7:53-8:11 is placed at the end of the Gospel of John.^[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 represents K^x in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.^[5]

History

The manuscript was examined by Birch and Burgon. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.^[3]

It is currently housed at the Biblioteca Marciana (Gr. Z 9), at Venice.^[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. 55. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n65/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. 59.
3. ^ ^{a b c d e} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 167. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n179/mode/2up. 
4. ^ 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. 220. 
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. 57. 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. 167. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n179/mode/2up. 

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