Minuscule 29
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Minuscule 29 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1022 (Soden). It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on vellum. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 11th century.[1]
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Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 169 parchment leaves (18.1 by 14.1 cm). Written in one column per page, 30 lines per page.[1] Correctly written by a Latin scribe. It contains Prolegomena, the Eusebian Canons, subscriptions, Synaxarion, and Menologion. Initial letters written in colour.[2] In the three later Gospels some leaves lost (Matt. 1-15; Mark 16:15 - Luke 4:28), and were supplied in the 15th century by paper leaves.[3][2]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland place it in Category V.[4]
History
The manuscript was examined by Scholz (1794-1852).[2]
It is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 89) 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. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 135.
- 3. F. H. A. Scrivener, "A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament" (London 1861), p. 145
- 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.
Further reading
- Kirsopp Lake & Silva Lake, "Family 13 (The Ferrar Group): The Text According to Mark", Studies & Documents 11, 1941.
