Minuscule 86
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Minuscule 86 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1030 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 11th or 12th century.[1]
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Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 281 leaves (size 24 cm by 18 cm). Written in one column per page, 22-23 lines per page.[1] It contains Prolegomena, Eusebian tables, synaxaria, and pictures.[2]
History
The manuscript once was in Buda.[2] It was bought by priest Micheal at Constantinople in 1183 for the Emperor Alexius II Commenus. In 1699 it was purchased by Carl Rayger. Since 1722 it was held at the Lycaeum at Pressburg.[3] It was examined by Bengel and Endlicher.[2]
It is currently housed in at the Slovenská akadémia vied (394 kt), at Bratislava.[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. 51.
- 2. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 206.
- 3. C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 148.
