Minuscule 301 Explained

Minuscule 301 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A156 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.[2] It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 221 parchment leaves with a commentary. The text is written in one column per page, the biblical text in 22 lines per page, the text of a commentary in 48 lines per page.[2]

It contains tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, a division according to the Ammonian Sections, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, and numbers of Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: [[Stichometry|στιχοι]]. It lacks references to the Eusebian Canons.[3]

Biblical text is surrounded by a catena. In the Gospel of Mark, the commentary is of Victorinus's authorship.[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 belongs to the textual family Kx and creates textual pair with Minuscule 373 in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.[5]

The Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is placed at the end of John.[3]

History

The manuscript once belonged to Jean Hurault de Boistaillé (like codices 10, 203, 263, 306, 314).[3]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).[6] It was examined and described by Scholz, Paulin Martin,[7] and C. R. Gregory.[3]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 187) at Paris.[2]

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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. 58.
  2. Book: Aland , Kurt . M. Welte . B. Köster . K. Junack . Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments . . 1994 . Berlin, New York . 65 . 3-11-011986-2 .
  3. Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . Hinrichs . 1900 . Leipzig . 1 . 176 .
  4. 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.
  5. 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 . 59 . 0-8028-1918-4 . registration .
  6. Book: Scrivener , Frederick Henry Ambrose . Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener . Edward Miller . . . 1894 . London . 1 . 4 . 225 .
  7. [Paulin Martin|Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin]