Minuscule 210

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Minuscule 210
Text	Gospels
Date	12th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Biblioteca Marciana
Size	37.5 cm by 29.5 cm
Type	Byzantine
Category	V
Note	marginalia

Minuscule 210 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A¹³³ (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th or 12th century.^[2] It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains almost complete text of the four Gospels, on 372 parchment leaves (size 37.5 cm by 29.5 cm).^[2] The text is written in one column per page, in various number of lines per page.^[3][4] It has only one lacunae in Matthew 1:1-2:18, it was supplied by a later hand.^[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 of the pages.^[3]

It contains pictures. The biblical text is surrounded by a (Catenae). In the Gospel of Mark, the commentary is by Victorinus of Pettau.^[3] There are rich blue and gold illuminations and pictures of Saint Mark and Luke.^[4]

Text

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

It was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method.^[6]

History

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

It is currently housed at the Biblioteca Marciana (Fondo ant. 27), 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. ^ ^{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. 220. 
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. 57. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 

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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