Minuscule 142

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Minuscule 142 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 151 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 11th century.[1]

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Description

The codex contains the text of the New Testament (except Book of Revelation) on 324 parchment leaves (size 12 cm by 8.3 cm).[1] It containing Book of Psalms.[2] The order of New Testament books: Gospels, Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles.

Neatly written (Scrivener) in one column per page, 30 lines per page.[1] The letters are very small. It contains tables of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, (synaxaria and Menologion from 1447), subscriptions, pictures, Euthalian apparatus.[3] There are many marginal readings in another ancient hand.[2]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[4]

History

The manuscript was examined by Birch and Scholz.[3]

It is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Vat. gr. 1210), 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. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 213.
  • 3. C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, pp. 157-158.
  • 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. 138.


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