Minuscule 239

Minuscule 239

New Testament manuscript

Text Gospels †
Date 11th century
Script Greek
Now at State Historical Museum
Size 32.5 cm by 25.5 cm
Category none

Minuscule 239 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A147 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically, it has been assigned to the 11th century.[2]

Description

The codex contains the text of the Mark 16:2-8; Luke 1:1-53; 1:70-24:53; John 1:1-16:23 on 277 parchment leaves (size 32.5 cm by 25.5 cm).[2] It contains the Eusebian Canon tables at the beginning, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) are placed before Luke and John, and scholia.[3] The biblical text is surrounded by a commentary (catena).[4]

Text

Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.[5] It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.[6]

History

The manuscript belonged to the monastery Pantocrator at Athos peninsula. It was brought to Moscow, by the monk Arsenius, on the suggestion of the Patriarch Nikon, in the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov (1645-1676).[3] The manuscript was collated by C. F. Matthaei.[4]

The manuscript is currently housed at the State Historical Museum (V. 84, S. 46) at Moscow.[2][7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 56.
  2. 1 2 3 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.
  3. 1 2 Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 223.
  4. 1 2 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 171.
  5. ↑ Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. pp. 132, 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  6. ↑ Wisse, Frederik (1982). The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 57. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
  7. ↑ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 3 April 2011.

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