Minuscule 272

Minuscule 272 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1182 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 11th century.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 218 parchment leaves (19.2 cm by 13.2 cm). Written in one column per page, in 21 lines per page.<ref name = Aland/> It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian tables, tables of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections, Eusebian Canons (mostly omitted), Synaxarion, Menologion, and subscriptions.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.<ref>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. </ref> It belongs to the textual family K¹.

Passage Matthew 16:2b-3 is excluded.<ref name = Gregory/>

History

The manuscript once belonged to Melchisedek Thevenot's († 1692), then it was held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Thomas Rodd, librarian, purchased it for the British Museum.<ref name = Gregory/>

The manuscripts was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).

The manuscript is currently housed at the British Library (Add. 15581) at London.<ref name = Aland/>

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism