Minuscule 189

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Minuscule 189 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 269 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 14th century.^[1]

Contents 1 Description 2 Text 3 History 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles and Pauline epistles on 452 elegant parchment leaves (size 11.5 cm by 9.8 cm).^[1] Written in one column per page, in 24 lines per page,^[1] in light-black ink, capital letters in red.^[2] Letters are small and beautiful. It contains lists of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, lectionary equipment, αναγνωσεις, synaxaria,^[3] Euthalian apparatus to Catholic and Pauline epistles.^[2] It has only one lacunae in John 19:38-21:25.^[2]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[4] Von Soden classified it as member of the textual family K^r and it was confirmed by Wisse.^[5]

History

It was examined by Birch, Scholz, Burgon, and Gregory (1886).^[2]

It is currently housed at the Laurentian Library (Plutei. VI. 27), at Florence.^[1]

See also

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

References

  1. ^ a b c d K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 58.
  2. ^ a b c d C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 164.
  3. ^ F. H. A. Scrivener, "A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament" (London 1894), vol. 1, p. 217.
  4. ^ 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. 132.
  5. ^ F. Wisse, The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1982, p. 92.

Further reading

External links

• Minuscule 189 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism
• Wikipedia Article on Minuscule 189