Minuscule 215
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Minuscule 215 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A134 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 11th century.[1]
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Description
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels, on 272 parchment leaves (size 33 cm by 23.5 cm), with a commentary.[1] Written in one column per page, 24 lines per page (biblical text).[2] It contains Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian tables, tables of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections (Mark 237), Eusebian Canons, lectionary markings, synaxaria, and pictures (later hand).[2] The commentary to Matthew is an authorship of Chrysostomos, Mark - Victorinus of Pettau, Luke - Titus of Bostra, John - Chrysostomos.[2] It has the famous Jerusalem Colophon ("from the ancient manuscripts of Jerusalem").[3] The manuscript is a duplicate of the codex 20 and 300, as well in its text as in the subscriptions and commentary, being without any later corrections seen in codex 20.[3]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[4]
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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. 60.
- 2. C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 168.
- 3. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1. London. p. 220.
- 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.
