Minuscule 123 Explained

Minuscule 123 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 174 (Von Soden numbering),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on a parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.[2] It has complex contents with some marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 328 thick parchment leaves . The text is written in one column per page, 18 lines per page.

The text is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 241 – 16:20), but without references to the Eusebian Canons.[3]

It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian Canon tables, Prolegomena, tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, pictures, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.[4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx. Kurt Aland places it in Category V.[5]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kx in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.[6]

Some corrections were made by another hand.[4]

History

The manuscript was brought from Constantinople by the ambassador Augier de Busbeck in 1562 (along with Minuscule 221 and 222).

It was examined by Treschow, Alter, Birch.[4] Alter used it in his edition of the Greek text of the New Testament.[7] C. R. Gregory saw it in 1887.

Currently the codex is located at the Austrian National Library (Theol. Gr. 240) at Vienna.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Gregory, Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament . 1908 . J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung . Leipzig . 52.
  2. Book: K. Aland . M. Welte . B. Köster . K. Junack . Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments . . Berlin, New York . 1994 . 54.
  3. Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes . Hinrichs . 1900 . Leipzig . 1 . 155 .
  4. Book: Scrivener , Frederick Henry Ambrose . Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener . Edward Miller . . . 1894 . London . 1 . 211 .
  5. Book: Aland , Kurt . Kurt Aland . Aland . Barbara . Barbara Aland . Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) . The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism . . 1995 . Grand Rapids . 138 . limited . 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  6. Book: Wisse , Frederik . The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke . . 1982 . Grand Rapids . 55 . 0-8028-1918-4 . registration .
  7. K. Alter, Novum Testamentum Graecum, ad Codicem Vindobonensem Graece expressum: Varietam Lectionis addidit Franciscus Carolus Alter, 2 vols. 8vo, Vienna, 1786-1787.