Minuscule 259
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Minuscule 259 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A122 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. 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 263 parchment leaves (22 cm by 17.5 cm).[1] It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian tables, Prolegomena, tables of κεφαλαια, Ammonian Sections, Eusebian Canons, Menologion, Synaxarion, the Eusebian tables, and commentaries (Victor's on Mark).[2][3] The pericope John 7:53-8:11 is placed at the end of John after 21:25.[2] Text is close to codex 250.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[4]
History
Formerly the manuscript was held at the Iviron monastery at Athos peninsula. It was brought to Moscow, by the monk Arsenius, on the suggestion of the Patriarch Nikon, in the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov (1645-1676). The manuscript was collated and examined by C. F. Matthaei.[3] According to Scrivener it was one of the best menuscript examined by Matthei.[3]
The manuscript is currently housed at the State Historical Museum (V. 86, S. 44) at Moscow.[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. 62.
- 2. C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, pp. 172-173.
- 3. F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament (London 1894), Vol. 1, p. 225.
- 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.
Further reading
- C. F. Matthei, Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine, (Riga, 1782-1788).
- Kurt Treu, Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan, T & U 90 (Berlin, 1966), pp. 268-270.
