Minuscule 97
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Minuscule 97 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 260 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 12th century.[1] Formerly it was labeled by 97a and 241p.[2]
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Description
The codex contains a complete the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 204 leaves (size 18 cm by 13.5 cm) with only one lacunae (Acts 16:39-17:18). Written in one column per page, 27 lines per page.[3] It contains Euthalian apparatus, subscriptions, στιχοι, Synaxarion, Menologion, and αναγνωσεις.[4] It has marginal scholia from Chrysostom and Œcumenius.[5]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[6]
History
The manuscript was deposited by one Theodoret in the Catechumens library of the Great Lavra monastery on the Mount Athos.[7] It came from Athos to Germany. The text of the manuscript was collated by Griesbach.
It is currently housed at the Herzog August Bibliothek (Codd. Gud. Graec. 104.2), at Wolfenbüttel.[8]
See also
References
- ^ a b c K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 52.
- ^ a b Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 272.
- ^ a b Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 291.
- ^ 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.
