Minuscule 220

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Minuscule 220
Name	Vind. Ness. 180
Text	Gospels
Date	13th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Austrian National Library
Size	9.7 cm by 6.8 cm
Type	Byzantine
Category	V
Hand	very small letters
Note	marginalia

Minuscule 220 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 457 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.^[2] It has complex contents. It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels, on 303 parchment leaves (size 9.7 cm by 6.8 cm).^[2] It is written in one column per page, 22 lines per page, in very small letters.^[3]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 234, last numbered section in 16:10), references to the Eusebian Canons are absent.^[3]

It contains lectionary markings at the margin for liturgical reading, and synaxaria.^[3][4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Π^b in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.^[6]

History

It was examined by Alter.^[3] Alter used it in his edition of the Greek text of the New Testament.^[7] C. R. Gregory saw it in 1887.^[3]

It is currently housed at the Austrian National Library (Theol. Gr. 337), at Vienna.^[2]

See also

Bible portal

• 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. 56. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n67/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. 60.
3. ^ ^{a b c d e} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 168. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n181/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. 221. 
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. 
7. ^ F. K. Alter, Novum Testamentum Graecum, ad Codicem Vindobonensem Graece expressum: Varietam Lectionis addidit Franciscus Carolus Alter, 2 vols. 8vo, Vienna, 1786-1787.

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 168. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n181/mode/2up. 

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