Minuscule 21
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Minuscule 21 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 286 (Soden). It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament. Written on parchment. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 12th century.<ref name = Aland>K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 48. </ref> According to Scrivener the 10th century.
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Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels with some lacunae (Mark 13:28-14:33; Luke 1:10-58; 21:26-22:50) on 203 parchment leaves (23 cm by 18 cm). Written in two columns per page (size of column 16.3 by 4.6 cm), in black ink. Capital letters in red or blue ink. It contains κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections (Mark 237), αναγνωσεις, pictures. Synaxaria and Menologion were added by later hand in the 15th century on the paper. It has not the Eusebian Canons.<ref name = Gregory/><ref name = Scrivener>F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament (George Bell & Sons: London 1894), Vol. 1, p. 193. </ref>
John 5:4 marked with obelus. Text of the pericope John 7:53-8:11 omitted.<ref name = Gregory>Gregory, Caspar René, Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1, 1900, Leipzig, p. 133</ref>
Text
The Greek text of the codex is mixed. It contains some the Western and the Caesarean elements, but the Byzantine element is predominate. Aland placed it in Category V.<ref>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. </ref>
In Matthew 27:9 it has unique variant ἐπληρώθη τὸ ῥηθὲν διὰ Ἰησαίου τοῦ προφήτου (fulfilled what was spoken by Isaiah the prophet). This variant is supported only by Latin Codex Rehdigerianus. Another manuscripts have "Jeremiah" or omitt name of prophet.<ref>MA26, p. 81.</ref>
History
The manuscript probably was written in Calabria. At the end of Luke it is written κυριε σωσων με, τον αμαρτωλον ονησιμον (the Lord save me, a sinner Onesimus). Probably it was written by Onesimus.<ref name = Gregory/> It was partially collated by Scholz (1794-1852).<ref name = Gregory/>
It was held in Fontainebleau.
It is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 68) at Paris.<ref name = Aland/>
See also
References
External links
- Minuscule 21 At the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism
