Minuscule 67 Explained

Minuscule 67 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 150 (von Soden),[1] known as Codex Galei Londinensis, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 10th century. The manuscript is lacunose.[2] Some leaves of the codex were lost. It has full marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 202 leaves (size) with only one but large lacuna (John 6:65-21:25). The text is written in two columns per page, 20 lines per page.[2] The initial letters written in gold and colour.[3]

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 another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (Matthew 355; Mark 235 – 16:12; Luke 342), with references to the Eusebian Canons.[3]

It contains the Eusebian tables, tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before every Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.[3] [4] It contains the Athanasian symbol on folio 3 recto.[3]

Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kx in Luke 10. It has mixed text in Luke 1. In Luke 20 it has a mixture of Byzantine families.[6]

History

The manuscript is dated on the palaeographical ground to the 10th century.[3]

Robert Huntington, Bishop of Raphoe († 1701), brought the manuscript from the East (along with 325). It was examined by Mill (as Hunt. 2).[3] C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.[3]

It is currently housed at the Bodleian Library (MS. Auct. E. 5. 11), at Oxford.[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. 50.
  2. K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 50.
  3. Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . Hinrichs . 1900 . Leipzig . 1 . 144 .
  4. Book: Scrivener , Frederick Henry Ambrose . Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener . Edward Miller . . . 1894 . London . 4 . 1 . 202 .
  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 . 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 . 54 . 0-8028-1918-4 . registration .