Minuscule 6

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Minuscule 6 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 356 (Soden). It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on 235 parchment leaves (14.4 by 10.5 cm), dated paleographically to the 13th century.<ref name=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. 47. </ref>

Description

The codex contains entire of the New Testament except the Book of Revelation (Catholic epistles placed before Pauline epistles) with some lacunae. Written in one column per page, 29-47 lines per page.<ref name = Aland/> Written in elegant small letters.<ref name = Gregory>C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 129. </ref> It contains Prolegomena, tables of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections, and synaxaria with Chrysostom's liturgy, κεφαλαια,<ref name = Scrivener>F. H. A. Scrivener, "A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament" (London 1894), vol. 1, p. 191. </ref> the Euthalian apparatus, στιχοι and ornamented.<ref name = Gregory/> At the end it has liturgy of Chrysostomos. Subscriptions and στιχοι were added by a later hand.<ref name = Gregory/>

The order of books: Gospels, Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles.<ref name = Gregory/>

Text

The Greek text of Catholic epistles and Pauline epistles of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, with numerous allien readings. Aland placed it in Category III. This text belongs to the textual Family 1739. In rest of books of New Testament (Gospels and Acts) it is a representative of the Byzantine text-type, it close to the codex 4. Aland placed it in Category V.<ref>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. 129. </ref>

Noteworthy readings:

• Romans 3:12 omit ουκ εστιν — B, 6, 424**, 1739
• 1 Corinthians 1:14 omit τω θεω — א* B, 6, 424**, 1739]
• Galatians 1:15 omit και καλεσας δια της χαριτος αυτου — P⁴⁶, 6, 424**, 1739, 1881
• Ephesians 1:1 omit εν εφεσω — P⁴⁶, B, 6, 424**, 1739]
• Ephesians 4:28 omit ταις (ιδιαις) χερσιν — P, 6, 424**, 1739, 1881]
• Ephesians 5:31 omit και προσκολληθησεται προς την γυναικα αυτου — 6, 1739*, Origen, Jerome
• 1 Timothy 3:14 omit προς σε (εν) — (F, G), 6, 263, 424**, 1739, 1881]
• 2 Timothy 4:8 omit πασσι — D**, 6, 424**, (1739), 1881, lat Ambrosiaster
• Hebrews 5:12 omit τινα — Uncial 075, 6, 424**, 1739, 1891

History

The manuscript once belonged to Fontainebleau. It was used by Robert Estienne in his Editio Regia, and designated by him as ε'.<ref name = Gregory/> It was examined by Wettstein, Griesbach, and Scholz (only Matthew, Mark 1-4, John 7), and Gregory (in 1885).<ref name = Gregory/> It was cited in 27 edition of Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece only twice (1 Cor 11:24; 15:6).<ref>Kurt Aland, "Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum. Locis parallelis evangeliorum apocryphorum et patrum adhibitis edidit", Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1996, p. XXVII. </ref>

The codex is located now at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 112) in Paris.<ref name=Aland/>

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Textus Receptus
• Textual criticism

References

Further reading

• J. N. Birdsall, A Study of MS. 1739 and its Relationship to MSS. 6, 424, 1908, and M, (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, 1959).

External links

• Minuscule 6 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism