Minuscule 271

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Minuscule 271
Text	Gospels
Date	11th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Bibliothèque nationale de France
Size	19.2 cm by 13.2 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	none
Note	marginalia

Minuscule 271 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 169 (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 four Gospels on 252 parchment leaves (19.2 cm by 13.2 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, in 22 lines per page.^[2]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, but without references to the Eusebian Canons.^[3]

It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, and pictures.^[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to A^k (Antiocheian – i.e. Byzantine – commentated text).^[4] Kurt Aland did not place it in any Category.^[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family K^x in Luke 1 and Luke 20, and belongs to the textual cluster Ω. In Luke 10 no profile was made.^[4]

Textually it is close to the codex 53.

History

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 it in 1885.^[3]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Suppl. Gr. 75) 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 c} Aland, K.; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 63. ISBN 3110119862. 
3. ^ ^{a b c} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 174. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n187/mode/2up. 
4. ^ ^{a b} 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. 58. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 
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. ^ 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. 225. 
7. ^ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 62

Further reading

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

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