Minuscule 12
| New Testament manuscript | |
| Text | Gospels |
|---|---|
| Date | 14th century |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | National Library of France |
| Size | 26 cm by 20 cm |
| Type | Byzantine text-type |
| Category | V |
Minuscule 12 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A137 (Von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment, dated palaeographically to the 14th century.[1]
Description
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels, on 294 parchment leaves (26 cm by 20 cm), with the commentaries. The text is written in one column per page, biblical text in 21 lines and text of commentary in 57 lines per page.
It contains Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια, numbers of the κεφαλαια (chapters) at the margin, the τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages, the Ammonian Sections, a references to the Eusebian Canons, Menologion, synaxaria, and subscriptions.[2]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type, with a few alien readings.[3] Aland placed it in Category V.[4]
It was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method.[5]
The text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is omitted.[6]
History
It was examined and described by Wettstein, Griesbach,[7] and Paulin Martin.[8] Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.[2]
The codex now is located at the National Library of France (Gr. 230) at Paris.[1]
See also
References
- ^ 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. 47.
- ^ a b Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 131.
- ^ Tischendorf, Novum Testamentum Graece. Editio Septima, Lipsiae 1859, p. CXCV.
- ^ Aland, Kurt (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.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ Frederik Wisse, The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, Studies and Documents, William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1982, p. 53
- ^ F. H. A. Scrivener, "A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament" (London 1894), Vol. 1, p. 192.
- ^ Griesbach, Symbolae critique, p. CXLIV
- ^ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au N. T., conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 24-25