Minuscule 211

Minuscule 211
New Testament manuscript
TextGospels
Date12th century
ScriptGreek-Arabic
Now atBiblioteca Marciana
Size29.5 cm by 23 cm
Typemixed
Categorynone
Notemarginalia

Minuscule 211 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 234 (Soden),[1] is a Greek-Arabic diglot minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.[2] The manuscript is lacunose. It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 280 parchment leaves (size 29.5 cm by 23 cm), in quarto (four leaves in quire), with two lacunae (Luke 1:1-2:32; John 1:1-4:2).[2] It is written in two columns per page, 26 lines per page.[3]

The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 236 sections – with the last numbered section in 16:12), with references to the Eusebian Canons (irregularly inserted).[3]

It contains the table of the κεφαλαια (table of contents) to Luke, synaxaria, Menologion, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, with numbers of ρηματα, and numbers of στιχοι.[3][4] In additional material it has Limits of the Five Patriarchates (like codices 69 and 543).[5]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a mixture of the text-types. Aland did not place it in any Category.[6]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual group Λ in Luke 10 and Luke 20. In Luke 1 the manuscript is defective.[7]

It contains the text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11).[8]

History

It was examined by Birch,[9] Burgon, and Lake. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.[3]

It is currently housed at the Biblioteca Marciana (Fondo ant. 539), at Venice.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 55.
  2. ^ a b c K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 59
  3. ^ a b c d Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. pp. 167–168.
  4. ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 220.
  5. ^ J. Rendel Harris, The Origin of the Leicester Codex of the New Testament (London, 1887), pp. 62-65.
  6. ^ Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  7. ^ 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. 57. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
  8. ^ Birch, Variae Lectiones ad Textum IV Evangeliorum, Haunie 1801, p. 429
  9. ^ Birch, Variae Lectiones ad Textum IV Evangeliorum, Haunie 1801, p. LXV

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