Minuscule 2616

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Minuscule 2616
Text	Gospels
Date	12th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Duke University
Size	17.7 cm by 12.9 cm
Category	none

Minuscule 2616 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on 280 parchment leaves (17.7 cm by 12.9 cm). Paleografically it has been assigned to the 12th century.^[1]

Description

The codex contains the complete text of the four Gospels. The text is written in two columns per page, in 21 lines per page. Numbered only on the recto of leaf. The title in Mark is written in red semi-uncial letters, in rest of the Gospels in red uncial letters. It contains the Ammonian Sections and references to the Eusebian Canons.

Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.^[2] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family K^x in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 it has a mixture of the Byzantine textual families.^[3]

History

The codex now is located in the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of the Duke University (Gk MS 16) at Durham.^[1]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

1. ^ ^{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. 199.
2. ^ 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. 140. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
3. ^ 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. 89. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 

Further reading

• Clark Kenneth Willis, "Greek New Testament Manuscripts in Duke University Library", Library Notes, no. 27 (April 1953), pp. 6-7.
• Caspar Rene Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes", Leipzig J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1900-1909.

External links

• Minuscule 2616 at the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts