Minuscule 250

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Minuscule 250
Text	New Testament (except Gospels)
Date	11th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Bibliothèque nationale de France
Size	25.5 cm by 21 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V

Minuscule 250 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), O ¹⁰ (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.^[2]

Scrivener labelled it by 264^a, 337^p.^[3] Gregory labelled it by 250^a, 299^p, and 121^r.^[4]

Description

The codex contains the text of the Book of Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline Epistles, and Book of Revelation on 379 parchment leaves (25.5 cm by 21 cm).^[4]

The biblical text is surrounded by a catena. The biblical text is written in one column per page and 20 lines in column, the text of commentary has 41 lines.^[4]

The Epistle to the Hebrews is placed after Epistle to Philemon.^[4]

It contains Synaxarion and the Euthalian Apparatus.^[3]

Text

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

History

The manuscript was brought from Greece.

It was examined by Bernard de Montfaucon,^[6] Matthaei, Paulin Martin,^[7] Franz Delitzsch,^[4] and Herman C. Hoskier (only Apocalypse).

The manuscript is currently housed at the French National Library (Coislin Gr. 224) at Paris.^[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. 57. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n67/mode/2up. 
2. ^ ^{a b} 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. 303, 317. 
4. ^ ^{a b c d e} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments,. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 284, 306, 322. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n297/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. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
6. ^ Montfaucon, Bibliotheca Coisliniana, pp. 174-279
7. ^ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 126

Further reading

• C. F. Matthei, Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine, (Riga, 1782-1788). (as v)
• Herman C. Hoskier, Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse, London 1929, vol. 1, pp. 556 ff.
• J. Neville Birdsall, A Byzantine Calendar from the Menology of two Biblical Manuscripts, Anal Boll 84 (1966), pp. 29-57.

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