Minuscule 247
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Minuscule 247 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1192 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it had been assigned to the 12th century.[1]
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Description
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 223 parchment leaves (size 15.5 cm by 12 cm).[1] Written in one column per page, 26 lines per page.[1] It contains the tables of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, Prolegomena, Ammonian Sections, Eusebian Canons, lectionary markings, and Synaxarion, Menologion.[2]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[3]
History
Formerly the manuscript was held at the Philotheou monastery at Athos peninsula.[4] It was brought to Moscow, by the monk Arsenius, on the suggestion of the Patriarch Nikon, in the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov (1645-1676). The manuscript was collated by C. F. Matthaei.[5]
The manuscript is currently housed at the State Historical Museum (V. 17, S. 400) at Moscow.[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. 61.
- 2. F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament (London 1894), Vol. 1, p. 224.
- 3. 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.
- 4. C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 172.
- 5. F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament (London 1894), Vol. 1, p. 223.
Further reading
- C. F. Matthaei, Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine, (Riga, 1782-1788). (as q)
- C. F. Matthaei, D. Pavli Epistolae ad Thessalonicenses et Ad Timotheum Graece et Latine (1782-1785), p. 255.
- Kurt Treu, Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan, T & U 90 (Berlin, 1966), pp. 244-246.
