Minuscule 119
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Minuscule 119 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1290 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 13th century.[1]
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Description
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 237 parchment leaves (size 15.5 cm by 16 cm)[1]. Written stichometrically in one column per page, 23 lines per page (size of text 12 by 8 cm). Capital letters in red.[2] It contains prolegomena, tables of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections (Mark 236 - 16:12), (not Eusebian Canons), lectionary markings, subscriptions, and pictures.[2]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[3] According to Wisse it is close textually to the manuscripts 16, 217, 330, 491, 578, 693, 1528, and 1588.[4]
According to Gregory it is close to the codex 120.[2]
History
The manuscript once belonged to Simon de Colines in 1534.[2] It is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 85), at Paris.[1]
It was examined by Louvois for Ludolph Kuster and Griesbach.[5]
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. 53.
- 2. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 154.
- 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. Frederik Wisse, The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, Studies and Documents, William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1982, p. 107.
- 5. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 211.
Further reading
- J. J. Griesbach, Symb. Critica, CXLVIII f.
