Editing Minuscule 126

'''Minuscule 126''' (in the [[Biblical manuscript#Gregory-Aland|Gregory-Aland]] numbering), ε 185 ([[Biblical manuscript#Von Soden|Von Soden]] numbering). It is a Greek [[Lower case|minuscule]] [[manuscript]] of the [[New Testament]], written parchment. [[Paleography|Paleographically]] it had been assigned to the 12th century.<sup>[1]</sup> 

== Description ==

The manuscript contains a complete text of the four [[Gospel]]s on 219 parchment leaves (21 by 15.5 cm). Written in one column per page, 26 lines per page.<sup>[1]</sup> Matthew 28:18-20 is written in cruciform. It contains the Eusebian tables, prolegomena, tables of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections (Mark 241 - 16:20), [[Eusebian Canons]], pictures, lectionary markings (added by later hand), [[Synaxarion|synaxaria]] (later hand), and some added by a later hand corrextions.<sup>[2]</sup> The manuscript was carelessly written.<sup>[2]</sup> 

== Text ==

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the [[Byzantine text-type]]. [[Kurt Aland|Aland]] placed it in [[Categories of New Testament manuscripts#Category V|Category V]].<sup>[3]</sup>

== History ==

It was examined by Heusinger (1752), [[Andrew Birch|Birch]], Knittel, and [[Constantin von Tischendorf|Tischendorf]].<sup>[4]</sup> 

Currently the codex is located at the [[Herzog August Bibliothek]] (Theol. Gr. 60) at [[Wolfenbüttel]].<sup>[1]</sup> 

== See also ==
* [[List of New Testament minuscules]]
* [[Biblical manuscript]]

== References ==

*  1. [[Kurt Aland|K. Aland]], M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 54.
*  2. [[Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener|Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose]]; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 212. 
*  3. [[Kurt Aland|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. 
*  4. [[Caspar René Gregory|Gregory, Caspar René]] (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 155-156.

== Further reading ==

== External links ==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuscule_126 Wikipedia Article on Minuscule 126]
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