Minuscule 217

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Minuscule 217 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 233 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 12th century.^[1]

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels, on 299 parchment leaves (size 20.5 cm by 15.5 cm), with a commentary.^[1] Written in one column per page, 21 lines per page.^[2] It contains Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian tables, prolegomena of Kosmas, tables of κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections (Mark 236 - 16:12), the Eusebian Canons absent.^[2] The manuscript survived in good condition.^[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[4] Textually it is close to the manuscripts 16, 119, 330, 491, 578, 693, 1528, and 1588.^[5] They create Group 16 with following profile:

Luke 1: 8, (9), 13, 23, 28, 34, 37, 43.

Luke 10: 3, 7, 15, 19, 23, (25), 58, 63.

Luke 20: 4, 13, 19, 50, 51, 54, 55, 62, 65.^[5] Codex 217 forms a pair with codex 578 in Luke 1 and 10. They lack readings 13 and 23 and add 48 in Luke 1, and lacks 20 in Luke 20.^[5]

History

The manuscript was given in 1478 by Peter de Montagnana to the monastery of St. John, in Viridario, at Padua. It was examined by Birch and Burgon.^[2]

It is currently housed at the Biblioteca Marciana (Gr. I,3 (944)), at Venice.^[1]

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. 60.
2. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 168.
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. 221.
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.

8 5. Frederik Wisse, The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, Studies and Documents, William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1982, p. 107.

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