Minuscule 140
From Textus Receptus
Minuscule 140 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 202 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 13th century.[1]
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Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 408 parchment leaves (size 23.4 cm by 18.3 cm).[1] Written in two columns per page, 22 lines per page.[1]
It contains the Eusebian tables, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections (Mark 234 - 16:9), Eusebian Canons, and pictures.[2]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[3] It is close to minuscule 80.[2] In Luke 1:64 it has textual variant supports the Complutensian reading.[4]
History
The manuscript was given by the Queen of Cyprus to Innocent VII (1404-1406).[4]
It was examined by Birch and Scholz.
It is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Vat. gr. 1158), at Rome.[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. 55.
- 2. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 157.
- 3. 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.
- 4. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 213.
Further reading
- Franz Delitzsch, Fortgesetzte Studien zur Entstehungsgeschichte der camplutensziehen Polyglotte (Leipzig 1886), pp. 30-35.
