Minuscule 229

New Testament manuscripts
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Minuscule 229
Name	Codex Escurialensis
Text	Gospels
Date	1140
Script	Greek
Now at	Escurial
Size	14.2 cm by 11 cm
Category	none

Minuscule 229 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1206 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to 1140.^[2]

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels with two lacunae (Mark 16:16-20; John 1:1-11), on 297 parchment leaves (size 14.2 cm by 11 cm).^[2] The leaves are arranged in octavo (eight leaves in quire).^[3] The text is written in one column per page, 21 lines per page.^[2]

It contains pictures and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.^[4] Many corrections were made in the 14th century.^[5]

Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.^[6] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Π^a in Luke 1. In Luke 10 and Luke 20 it represents family K^x.^[7]

History

According to the colophon it was: Ετελειωθη το παρων βιβλιον δια χειρος βασιλειου νοταριου του Αργυροπουλου μηνι ιαννουαριω εις α. Νυ του ςχμ ετους.^[3]

The manuscript was written by Basilius, a notary from Argyropolis, in 1140. In the 14th century someone corrected text of the codex in many places.^[5]

It was described by Daniel Gotthilf Moldenhawer, who collated it about 1783 for Andreas Birch (Esc. 8).^[4] Emmanuel Miller described it very briefly in 1848.^[3]

It is currently housed at the Escurial (Cod. Escurialensis, X. IV. 21).^[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. 56. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n67/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. 60.
3. ^ ^{a b c} Emmanuel Miller, Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la bibliothèque de l'Escurial (Paris 1848), p. 407.
4. ^ ^{a b} Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 222. 
5. ^ ^{a b} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 169. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n181/mode/2up. 
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. pp. 132, 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
7. ^ 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

• Emmanuel Miller, Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la bibliothèque de l'Escurial (Paris 1848), p. 407.
• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 169. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n181/mode/2up. 

External links

• Minuscule 229 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism