Minuscule 257
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Minuscule 257 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 466 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it had been assigned to the 14th century.[1] Formerly it was labeled by 302a and 260p.[2] Scrivener by 250a and 300p.[3]
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Description
The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 116 parchment leaves (24.3 by 17.5 cm).[1] It contains prolegomena, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, lectionary markings, Synaxarion, Menologion, subscriptions, and στιχοι.[2][3] It has also some Psalms.[2]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Western text-type.[4] Aland did not place it in any Category.
History
The manuscript was written by Joseph, a scribe. Heinrich Brugsch brought it from Cairo to Berlin.[2] It was held in kön. Gr. Quart. 43.[2]
It was cited only once in the Novum Testamentum Graece (Nestle-Aland 27 ed.) - in 1 Cor 11:23.
The manuscript is currently housed at the Biblioteka Jagiellońska (Fonds der Berliner Hss, Graec. qu. 43) at Kraków.[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. 62.
- 2. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 285.
- 3. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 302.
- 4. David Alan Black, New Testament Textual Criticism, Baker Books, 2006, p. 65.
