Minuscule 126
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Minuscule 126 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 185 (Von Soden numbering). It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written parchment. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 12th century.[1]
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Description
The manuscript contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 219 parchment leaves (21 by 15.5 cm). Written in one column per page, 26 lines per page.[1] Matthew 28:18-20 is written in cruciform. It contains the Eusebian tables, prolegomena, tables of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections (Mark 241 - 16:20), Eusebian Canons, pictures, lectionary markings (added by later hand), synaxaria (later hand), and some added by a later hand corrextions.[2] The manuscript was carelessly written.[2]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[3]
History
It was examined by Heusinger (1752), Birch, Knittel, and Tischendorf.[4]
Currently the codex is located at the Herzog August Bibliothek (Theol. Gr. 60) at Wolfenbüttel.[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. 54.
- 2. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 212.
- 3. Aland, Kurt; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- 4. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 155-156.
