Minuscule 117

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Minuscule 117 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 506 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper leaves. Palaeographically it had been assigned to the 15th century.^[1]

Contents 1 Description 2 History 3 See also 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External links

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 202 paper leaves (size 20.5 cm by 14.8 cm)^[1] with lacune in Matthew 1:1-18; 15:18-39. Written stichometrically in one column per page.^[2] It contains pictures, Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian Tables, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, the Ammonian Sections (Mark 241 - 16:20), (not Eusebian Canons), lectionary markings, incipits, synaxaria, Menologion, subscriptions (Mark and John as in Codex Sangallensis), στιχοι, and pictucres.^[3] Initials, rubrics, and scholia in red.

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the group I^φb. Aland did not place it to any Category. Wisse in Luke 1 and Luke 20 assigned it to the textual family K^x. In Luke 10 he did not made profile method.^[4]

History

Place of origin of the manuscript is Eastern Mediterranean.^[5] It came to England in the first half of the 16th century.

The manuscript once belonged to Richard Bentley.^[2] It was examined by Griesbach,^[6] Bloomfield, and Angelo Mai.^[3]

It is currently housed at the British Library (Harley Collection 5731), at London.^[1]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

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. 53.
• 2. C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 154.
• 3. F. H. A. Scrivener, "A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament" (George Bell & Sons: London 1894), Vol. 1, p. 211.
• 4. Frederik Wisse, The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1982, p. 55.
• 5. Harley 5731 at the British Library
• 6. J. J. Griesbach, Symb. crit., 1, p. CLXXXXIX-CCII.

Further reading

• Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 70, 461.
• Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1999- ), I, pp. 181-82.

External links

• Harley 5731 at the British Library
• Wikipedia Article on Minuscule 117