Minuscule 267

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Minuscule 267
Text	Gospels
Date	12th century
Script	Greek
Now at	National Library of France
Size	20.5 cm by 15.5 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	member of Family 1424

Minuscule 267 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1289 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.^[2] It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 396 parchment leaves (20.5 cm by 15.5 cm), with lacunae (Matthew 1:1-8; Mark 1:1-7; Luke 1:1-8; Luke 24:50-John 1:12). The text is written in one column per page, in 20 lines per page.^[2]

The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections (Matthew 343, Mark 241 - 16:9, Luke 339, John 231), whose numbers are given at the margin. There are also references to the Eusebian Canons (in Matthew and Mark in the same line as Ammonian Sections – see codex 112).^{[3][n 1]}

It contains Prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin, incipits, αναγνωσεις (Matthew 116; Mark 71, Luke 114, John 67), subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, and numbers of στιχοι.^[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[4]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it creates textual cluster along with the manuscripts 7, 1651, and 1654. The cluster stands close to the textual family K^x.^[5]

It belongs to the textual family 1424.

History

The manuscript once belonged to Arsenikos, a monk. In 1605 (or 1606) it was presented to Nicodemus.^[3] The manuscripts was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).^[6] It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.^[7] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.^[3]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 69) at Paris.^[2]

See also

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

Notes

1. ^ In the same way arranged codices 192, 198, 212, 507, 583, 584.

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 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. 63
3. ^ ^{a b c d} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 174. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n187/mode/2up. 
4. ^ 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. 
5. ^ 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. pp. 58, 100. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 
6. ^ 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. 226. 
7. ^ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 58

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 174. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n187/mode/2up. 

External links

• Minuscule 267 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism