Minuscule 2815

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Codex Basilensis A.N.IV.4, designated by 2815 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 253 (Soden). Formerly was labelled as 2^ap in all catalogs, but it was renumbered by Aland. It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 12th century.<ref name = Aland/>

Contents 1 Description 2 History of the codex 3 See also 4 References 5 Further reagings 6 External links

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the Acts of the Apostles, General epistles, and Pauline epistles, 216 parchment leaves (15 by 10 cm). Written in one column per page, 27 lines per page.<ref name = Aland>Kurt Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 212. </ref> Written on a parchment in an elegant minuscule. It contains short introduction to the books.<ref name = Scrivener>F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament (London 1894), Vol. 1, p. 284. </ref>

The Greek text of the Gospels is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it as I^b1. Aland placed it in Category V. In Pauline epistles text is close to the codices 206, 429, 522 and 1891.

History of the codex

The manuscript belonged to the Preaching Friars, then to Amerbach, a printer of Basle.<ref name = Scrivener/>

This codex was used by Desiderius Erasmus in his first edition of his Novum Testamentum (1516). In result its readings became a basis for the Textus Receptus. Erasmus grounded on this copy, and he calles it exemplar mire castigatum. His binder cut off a considerable part of the margin.<ref name = Scrivener/>

It was examined by Mill, Battier, and Wettstein.<ref name = Scrivener/>

The codex is located now at the Basel University Library (Cod. A.N.IV.4), at Basel.

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Textual criticism

References

Further reagings

• Hermann von Soden, "Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte", Verlag von Arthur Glaue, Berlin 1902-1910.
• C. C. Tarelli, "Erasmus’s Manuscripts of the Gospels", JTS XLIV (1943), 155-162.

External links

• At the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism

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