Minuscule 25
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Minuscule 25 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A139 (Soden). It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on vellum, on parchment leaves. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 11th century.[1]
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Description
The codex contains a text of the four Gospels on 292 thick parchment leaves (30.2 cm by 23.2 cm), with considerable lacunae.[2] It is written in one column per page, biblical text in 13 lines per page, text of commentary in 42 lines per page, in brown ink. Capital letters in red ink. It contains lists of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, lectionary markings (partially), and a commentary (Mark - Victorinus).[3] Grandlt written, but very imperfect.[2]
Lacunae: Matthew Mt 1:1-4:25; 23:1-25:42; 26:43-55; 28:10-20; Luke 20:19-22:46; John 12:40-13:1; 15:24-16:12; 18:16-28; 20:19-21:19-25.[4]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[5]
History
It was examined by Griesbach, Scholz, Gregory, Martin.[6]
It is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 191) at Paris.[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. 48.
- 2. F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament (London 1861), p. 145.
- 3. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 134.
- 4. Kurt Aland, Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum. Locis parallelis evangeliorum apocryphorum et patrum adhibitis edidit, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1996, p. XXVII.
- 5. 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.
- 6. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1. London. p. 194.
