Minuscule 239

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Minuscule 239
Text	Gospels †
Date	11th century
Script	Greek
Now at	State Historical Museum
Size	32.5 cm by 25.5 cm
Category	none

Minuscule 239 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A¹⁴⁷ (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.^[2]

Description

The codex contains the text of the Mark 16:2-8; Luke 1:1-53; 1:70-24:53; John 1:1-16:23 on 277 parchment leaves (size 32.5 cm by 25.5 cm).^[2] It contains the Eusebian Canon tables at the beginning, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) are placed before Luke and John, and scholia.^[3] The biblical text is surrounded by a commentary (catena).^[4]

Text

Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.^[5] It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.^[6]

History

The manuscript belonged to the monastery Pantocrator at Athos peninsula. It was brought to Moscow, by the monk Arsenius, on the suggestion of the Patriarch Nikon, in the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov (1645-1676).^[3] The manuscript was collated by C. F. Matthaei.^[4]

The manuscript is currently housed at the State Historical Museum (V. 84, S. 46) at Moscow.^[2][7]

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} 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. 223. 
4. ^ ^{a b} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 171. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n183/mode/2up. 
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. pp. 132, 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. ^ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php. Retrieved 3 April 2011. 

Further reading

• C. F. Matthaei, Novum Testamentu Graece et Latine (Riga, 1782). (as g)
• Kurt Treu, Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan, T & U 90 (Berlin, 1966), pp. 264-265.

External links

• "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php. Retrieved 3 April 2011.