Minuscule 232

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Minuscule 232
Name	Codex Escurialensis
Text	Gospels
Date	1302
Script	Greek
Now at	Escurial
Size	22 cm by 17.5 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Hand	elegantly written

Minuscule 232 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 455 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1302.^[2] Scrivener deciphered the date as the year 1292.^[3]

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels, on 289 parchment leaves (size 22 cm by 17.5 cm).^[2] The leaves are arranged in quarto (four leaves in quire).^[4] The text is written in one column per page, 20-22 lines per page.^[2]

It contains the τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top and double Synaxarion.^[5] There are titloi in the margins of Matthew and Luke. It is elegantly written, but the scribe used a poor source.^[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[6]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family K^x in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.^[7]

History

There is an inscription from 1514 made by one of its owners, Zacharias.^[4]

It was described by Daniel Gotthilf Moldenhawer, who collated it about 1783 for Andreas Birch.^[5] It was also collated by Matthaei. It was briefly described by Emmanuel Miller. Miller deciphered the date of the colophon as 1292.^[4]

It is currently housed at the Escurial (Cod. Escurialensis, y. III. 7).^[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. 61.
3. ^ ^{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. 222. 
4. ^ ^{a b c} Emmanuel Miller, Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la bibliothèque de l'Escurial (Paris 1848), p. 281.
5. ^ ^{a b} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 170. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n183/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. p. 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. 281.
• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 170. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n183/mode/2up. 

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