Minuscule 272
Minuscule 272 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1182 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 11th century.[1]
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 218 parchment leaves (19.2 cm by 13.2 cm). Written in one column per page, in 21 lines per page.[1] It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian tables, tables of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections, Eusebian Canons (mostly omitted), Synaxarion, Menologion, and subscriptions.[2]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[3] It belongs to the textual family K1.
Passage Matthew 16:2b-3 is excluded.[2]
History
The manuscript once belonged to Melchisedek Thevenot's († 1692), then it was held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Thomas Rodd, librarian, purchased it for the British Museum.[2]
The manuscripts was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).[4]
The manuscript is currently housed at the British Library (Add. 15581) at London.[1]
See also
References
- 1. Aland, K.; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 63. ISBN 3110119862.
- 2. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 174.
- 3. 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.
- 4. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. 1. London. p. 226.