Minuscule 300

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Minuscule 300 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A¹⁴¹ (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 11th century.^[1]

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

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Matthew, Gospel of Mark, Gospel of Luke on 328 parchment leaves (33 cm by 23 cm), with a commentary. Written in one column per page, in 27-28 lines per page.^[1] It contains the Eusebian tables, tables of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections, Eusebian Canons, Synaxarion, Menologion, and subscriptions.^[2] The biblical text is surrounded by a catena. On a margin were added, by a later hand, commentaries of Chrysostom's on Matthew, Victor's on Mark, and Titus of Bostra on Luke. Subscriptions to the first three Gospels are the same like that in codex 262. It has the famous Jerusalem Colophon.^[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[4] Close to the codex 20.^[3]

History

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).^[5] It was collated by Scholz, Martin, Rose.^[2]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Suppl. Gr. 186) at Paris.^[1]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

• 1. Aland, K.; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 65. ISBN 3110119862.
• 2. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 176.
• 3. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 228. ISBN 1-4021-6347-9.
• 4. 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.
• 5. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 225.

Further reading

• Cramer, Catenae Graecorum patrum in N. T. (Oxford 1844), Vol. 1, p. XXVII.
• Wikipedia Article on Minuscule 300