Minuscule 297

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Minuscule 297
Text	Gospels
Date	12th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Bibliothèque nationale de France
Size	13.7 cm by 9 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	marginalia

Minuscule 297 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1200 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.^[2] It has marginalia

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 196 parchment leaves (13.7 cm by 9 cm). The text is written in one column per page, in 28 lines per page.^[2]

It contains tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, (not τιτλοι), some Ammonian Sections, lectionary markings at the margin, incipits, Synaxarion, and Menologion.^[3][4]

On leaf 186 it has some excerpts from Gerasimus.^[3]

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 represents textual family K^x in Luke 1; in Luke 10 it has mixed Byzantine text, in Luke 20 it has mixed text.^[6]

The text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is omitted, but it was supplied by a later hand.^[3]

History

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 in in 1885.^[3]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Suppl. Gr. 140) 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, Kurt; 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. ^ ^{a b c d} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 177. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n189/mode/2up. 
4. ^ 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. 228. 
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 relatifs au Nouveau Testament, conservés dans les bibliothèques de Paris (Paris 1883), p. 74

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 177. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n189/mode/2up. 

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