Minuscule 281

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Minuscule 281
Text	Gospels
Date	12th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Bibliothèque nationale de France
Size	21.3 cm by 15.6 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	full marginalia

Minuscule 281 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 295 (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 full marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 249 parchment leaves (21.3 cm by 15.6 cm), with lacunae (Matthew 28:11-20; Luke 1:1-9). The text is written in one column per page, in 22-23 lines per page.^[2]

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

It contains the Eusebian tables, subscriptions to John, lectionary markings - for liturgical reading - were added by a later hand.^[3][4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family Family K^x in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.^[6]

History

The manuscript was presented to the monastery "Deiparae Hieracis" by the eremite monk Meletius.^[4] The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).^[7] It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.^[8] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.^[3]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 88) 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. 58. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n69/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. 175. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n187/mode/2up. 
4. ^ ^{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. 227. 
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. ^ 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. 
7. ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 225. 
8. ^ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 68

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 175. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n187/mode/2up. 

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