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>

Contents 1 Description 2 Text 3 History 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links

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