Minuscule 609

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Minuscule 609
Text	Gospel of Luke †
Date	1043
Script	Greek–Arabic
Now at	Bibliothèque nationale de France National Library of Russia
Size	17.5 cm by 13.6 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	none
Note	Kx

Minuscule 609 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε ¹⁶¹ (von Soden),^[1] is a Greek–Arabic diglot minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1043. The manuscript is lacunose.^[2]

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Luke on 317 parchment leaves (size 17.5 cm by 13.6 cm), with lacunae. The leaves 67-73 were written by a later hand. The writing is in two columns per page, 17-18 lines per page.^[2] It contains the Ammonian Sections but without references to the Eusebian Canons.^[3]

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.^[4] Aland did not place it in any Category.^[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it creates the textual group M609 with Codex Campianus.^[4] Some of its peculiar readings are as follows (in all of these, the Arabic column agrees with the Byzantine Text unless noted otherwise):

• It lacks ἐντεῦθεν in Luke 4:9, along with E G H 28.
• It lacks καὶ λέγοντα in Luke 4:41, along with 019 and 1241.
• It adds ώστε μη δυναςαι αναγαγείν αυτό to the end of Luke 5:6.
• It reads καὶ ἄλλων in Luke 5:29 instead of καὶ ἁμαρτωλῶν, the reading in the Arabic text and N W X 213 262 443 517 954 1071 1424 1675.
• It omits καὶ εἰσὶν πρῶτοι οἳ ἔσονται ἔσχατοι from the end of Luke 13:30.
• It reads ἄριστον in Luke 14:15 instead of ἄρτον, the reading in the Arabic text and p⁷⁵ ‭א¹ A^c B D K* L N P Δ Θ Ψ f¹ 579 892 1241 2542.

History

The manuscript was written by Euphemius, a clergyman. Formerly it was held in Church of the Holy Sepulchre (No. 6) in Jerusalem.^[3] It was slightly examined by Martin (p. 99), Henri Omont, and Kurt Treu. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.^[3]

The manuscript currently is housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Suppl. Gr. 911, 315 fol.), at Paris.^[2]

Two leaves of the same codex with the text of Luke 8:8-14 were designated by number 2152 on the list Gregory-Aland and it is housed at the National Library of Russia (Gr. 290, 2 fol.) in Saint Petersburg.^[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. 69. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n79/mode/2up. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d} K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 83.
3. ^ ^{a b c} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 207. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n219/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. 64. 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. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 

Further reading

• Henri Omont, Facsimilés des plus anciens manuscrits grecs de la Bibliotèque Nationale du IXe et XIVe siècle (Paris 1891), 18.
• Kurt Treu, Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbiblisi und Erevan, Texte und Untersuchungen 91 (Berlin, 1966), pp. 120–121.
• Kirsopp Lake & Silva Lake, Dated Greek Minuscule Manuscripts to the Year 1200, Boston IV, 155.

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