Minuscule 49
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Minuscule 49 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 155 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 12th century.[1]
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Description
The codex contains the complete text of the four Gospels on 223 parchment leaves (size 14.5 cm by 11 cm). Written stichometrically in one column per page, 26-27 lines per page.[1] After biblical text followed "Historia tripartita" of Cassiodorus in Lombards language.[2] It contains the Eusebian tables, tables of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections, some of the Eusebian Canons, lectionary equipment, subscriptions, and στιχοι to the Gospel of Luke.[3][2]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type.[4]
History
It was brought from Turkey about 1628 together with Codex Alexandrinus, by the English ambassador at the court of Sultan, Sir Thomas Roe.[3] It was examined by Mill in 1883.[2] Since 1628 it is housed at the Bodleian Library (Roe 1), at Oxford.[4]
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. 140.
- 3. F. H. A. Scrivener, "A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament" (London 1861), p. 147.
- 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.
