Minuscule 234
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Minuscule 234 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 365 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Dated by a colophon to the year 1278.[1]
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Description
The codex contains entire text of the New Testament (except Apocalypse), on 315 thick parchment leaves (size 25.5 cm by 19 cm).[1] Written in two columns per page, 35 lines per page,[1] in black ink, capital letters in red. The order of books is the same like in codex 51: Acts, Pauline epistles, Catholic epistles, Gospels.[2] It contains Prolegomena ot the four Gospels, Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian tables, tables of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections (Matthew 359, Mark 241, Luke 342, John 232), Eusebian Canons, lectionary markings, incipits, Synaxarion, Menologion, Euthalian apparatus in the Catholic epistles, Hebrews has three Prolegomena.[2] The text has many corrections.[3]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland did not place it in any Category.[4] Wisse included it to the textual family Kx.
History
The manuscript is one of several copies written by Theodore Hagiopetrita (as codex 74, 412, and others).[3] It was bought at Venice by Friedrich Rostgaard in 1699.[2] It was examined by Hensler, Birch, Delitzsch, and Graux.
It is currently housed at the Det Kongelige Bibliotek (GkS 1322, 4) at Copenhagen.[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. 61.
- 2. C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 170.
- 3. F. H. A. Scrivener, "A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament" (London 1894), Vol. 1, p. 223.
- 4. Aland, Kurt; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
Further reading
- Charles Graux, Notices sommaires des manuscritti grecs de la grande bibliolheque royale de Copenhague, Paris 1879.
