Minuscule 293

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Minuscule 293
Text	Gospels †
Date	1262
Script	Greek
Now at	Bibliothèque nationale de France
Size	13.3 cm by 8.9 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	marginalia

Minuscule 293 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 365 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1262.^[2] Scrivener wrongly deciphered this as November 1373.^[3] It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains almost complete text of the four Gospels on 340 parchment leaves (13.3 cm by 8.9 cm), with lacunae (Mark 1:1-3:8). The text is written in one column per page, in 19-23 lines per page,^[2] by several different hands. Mark 1:1-3:8 was supplied by a later hand.

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 Ammonian Sections (in Mark 241 - 16:20), but without references to the Eusebian Canons.^[4]

It contains Prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, Synaxarion, subscriptions at the end, numbers of στιχοι, and pictures.^[4] It is ornamented with silver.^[4]

It is a palimpsest. The lower text was written in uncial letters, in two columns. It was Evangelistarion-Lectionary, dated palaeographically to the 9th or 10th century.^[2][4] The upper text of the palimpsest is the text of minuscule 293.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K^x.^[5] Aland placed it in Category V.^[6]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual group M1195 in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20, as a weak member.^[5]

History

The manuscript was written by Manuel at the suggestion of Blasius, a monk.^[4] It 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 it in 1885.^[4]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 117) 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 d} Aland, K.; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 64. ISBN 3110119862. 
3. ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1861). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 169. 
4. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 176. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n189/mode/2up. 
5. ^ ^{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. 
6. ^ 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 978-08028-4098-L. 
7. ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1 (4 ed.). London. p. 225. 
8. ^ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs relatifs au Nouveau Testament, conservés dans les bibliothèques de Paris (Paris 1883), p. 73.

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 176. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n189/mode/2up. 

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