Minuscule 143
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Minuscule 143 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A 125 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 11th century.[1]
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Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 275 thick parchment leaves (size 32 cm by 24.5 cm).[1] Written in one column per page, 24 lines per page.[1] Size of text 19 cm by 10.5 cm.[2]
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages. There is also the Ammonian Sections, with a references to the Eusebian Canons.[2]
It contains the tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, and pictures.[3] It contains a marginal commentary (Victor's on Mark).[3]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[4]
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family it belongs to the textual cluster Ω.[5]
History
On the first leaf is read, it was presented to Paul IV (1555-1559).[3]
It was examined by Birch (about 1782) and Scholz. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.[2]
It is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Vat. gr. 1229), at Rome.[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. 55.
- 2. C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 158.
- 3. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 213.
- 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.
- 5. Wisse, Frederik (1982). The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 55. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
Further reading
- Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 158.
