Minuscule 250

Minuscule 250
New Testament manuscript
TextNew Testament (except Gospels)
Date11th century
ScriptGreek
Now atBibliothèque nationale de France
Size25.5 cm by 21 cm
TypeByzantine text-type
CategoryV

Minuscule 250 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), O 10 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.[2]

Scrivener labelled it by 264a, 337p.[3] Gregory labelled it by 250a, 299p, and 121r.[4]

Description

The codex contains the text of the Book of Acts, the Catholic epistles, the Pauline Epistles, and the Book of Revelation on 379 parchment leaves (25.5 cm by 21 cm).[4]

The biblical text is surrounded by a catena. The biblical text is written in one column per page and 20 lines in column, the text of commentary has 41 lines.[4]

The Epistle to the Hebrews is placed after Epistle to Philemon.[4]

It contains Synaxarion and the Euthalian Apparatus.[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[5]

History

The manuscript was brought from Greece.

It was examined by Bernard de Montfaucon,[6] Matthaei, Paulin Martin,[7] Franz Delitzsch,[4] and Herman C. Hoskier (only Apocalypse).

The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Coislin Gr. 224) in Paris.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 57.
  2. ^ a b K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 61.
  3. ^ a b 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. pp. 303, 317.
  4. ^ a b c d e Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments,. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs. pp. 284, 306, 322.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Montfaucon, Bibliotheca Coisliniana, pp. 174-279
  7. ^ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 126

Further reading

  • C. F. Matthei, Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine, (Riga, 1782-1788). (as v)
  • Herman C. Hoskier, Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse, London 1929, vol. 1, pp. 556 ff.
  • J. Neville Birdsall, A Byzantine Calendar from the Menology of two Biblical Manuscripts, Anal Boll 84 (1966), pp. 29–57.