Minuscule 27

Minuscule 27 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1023 (Soden). It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on vellum, on 460 leaves (16 cm by 12.1 cm). Paleographically it had been assigned to the 10th century.^[1]

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels, though from John 18:3 the text is supplemented. Written in one column per page, 19 lines per page.^[2] It contains the tables of κεφαλαια, pictures, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections, Eusebian Canons, the synaxaria. Menologion was added by a later hand. It was extensively altered by a later hand.^[3] From John 8:3 the text is supplemented.^[3]

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type.^[4] It belongs to the textual Family 1424.

History

The first collation prepared Larroque (together with the codices 28-33), but it was very imperfect.^[3]

It was examined by Wettstein, Scholz (1794-1852), and Gregory.

It is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 115) at Paris.^[1]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscripts
• Textual criticism

References

• 1. K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 48.
• 2. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 135.
• 3. F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament (London 1894), vol. 1, p. 194.
• 4. Kurt Aland, and Barbara Aland, "The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism", transl. Erroll F. Rhodes, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995, p. 138.

External links

• Minuscule 27 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism
• Wikipedia Article on Minuscule 27