Minuscule 59
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Minuscule 59 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 272 (Von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 13th century.[1]
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Description
The codex contains complete text of the four Gospels on 238 leaves (size 19.6 cm by 14.5 cm) with lacunae. Written in one column per page, 23 lines per page.[1][2] It has τιτλοι, κεφαλαια, the Ammonian Sections, but not the Eusebian Canons.[3] It was carelessly written, and exhibits no less than 81 omissions by "homoioteleuton".[3]
It has some unusual textual variants. In Matthew 23:35 phrase υιου βαραχιου (son of Barachi'ah) is omitted; this omission is supported only by Codex Sinaiticus, three Evangelistaria (ℓ 6, ℓ 13, and ℓ 185), and Eusebius.[4]
History
The manuscript once belonged to the House of Friars Minor at Oxford. In 1567 Thomas Hatcher gave it to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (not 1867, as Scrivener wrote).[5] It was examined by Mill, Wettstein, minutely collated by Scrivener in 1860.[3] It is currently housed in at the Gonville and Caius College (Ms 403/412), at Cambridge.[1]
See also
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. 50.
- 2. C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 142.
- 3. F. H. A. Scrivener, "A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament" (London 1894), vol. 1, p. 199.
- 4. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 342.
- 5. J. Rendel Harris, The origin of the Leicester Codex (London 1887), p. 19.
Further reading
- F. H. A. Scrivener, "Adversaria critica sacra" (Cambridge and London, 1859).
- J. Rendel Harris, The origin of the Leicester Codex (London 1887), pp. 18-23.
- J. J. Smith, A catalogue of the mass in the library of Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, Cambridge 1849, p. 197.
