Minuscule 60
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Minuscule 60 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1321 (Von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Dated by a colophon to the year 1297.[1]
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Description
The codex contains complete text of the four Gospels on 291 leaves (size 20.5 cm by 14.5 cm).[1] Written elegantly in one column per page, 24-26 lines per page.[2]
It contains Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian Tables, τιτλοι, κεφαλαια, pictures, subscriptions text is divided into Ammonian Sections, but curiously not references to the Eusebian Canons on a margin of the text. It has a few scholia from Arethas.[3]
Together with the codex 2821 it belongs to the same manuscript. Folios 4-294 belong to the codex 60, folios 295-316 - to the codex 2821.[1]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[4]
History
The manuscript once belonged to John Moore, Bishof of Ely, after his death in 1714 to King George I, who gave it to the Cambridge University.[2]
It was examined by Mill.[3]
It is currently housed in at the Cambridge University Library (Dd. 9.69, fol. 4–294), 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. 49.
- 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. 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.
Further reading
- Franz Delitzsch, "Studien zur Entstehungsgeschichte der Polyglottenbibel des Cardinal Ximenes", Leipzig 1871.
