Minuscule 301

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Minuscule 301
Text	Gospels
Date	11th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Bibliothèque nationale de France
Size	34 cm by 26.5 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	marginalia

Minuscule 301 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A¹⁵⁶ (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.^[2] It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 221 parchment leaves (34 cm by 26.5 cm) with a commentary. The text is written in one column per page, the biblical text in 22 lines per page, the text of a commentary in 48 lines per page.^[2]

It contains tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, a division according to the Ammonian Sections, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, and numbers of στιχοι. It lacks references to the Eusebian Canons.^[3]

Biblical text is surrounded by a catena. In Gospel of Mark commentary is of Victorin's authorship.^[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 belongs to the textual family K^x and creates textual pair with Minuscule 373 in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.^[5]

The Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is placed at the end of John.^[3]

History

The manuscript once belonged to Jean Hurault Boistaller (like codex 10, 203, 263, 306, 314).^[3]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).^[6] It was examined and described by Scholz, Paulin Martin,^[7] and C. R. Gregory.^[3]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Suppl. Gr. 187) 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. 65. ISBN 3110119862. 
3. ^ ^{a b c d e} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 176. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n189/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. p. 59. 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. 225. 
7. ^ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs relatifs au Nouveau Testament, conservés dans les bibliothèques de Paris (Paris 1883), p. 78.

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 176. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n189/mode/2up. 
• Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs relatifs au Nouveau Testament, conservés dans les bibliothèques de Paris (Paris 1883), p. 78.