Minuscule 50
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Minuscule 50 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A232 (von 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 four Gospels on 241 leaves (size 29 cm by 22 cm) with a commentary.[1] Written stichometrically in one column per page, 18-26 lines per page. It has considerable lacunae (Matt. 1:1-9.35; 12:3-23; 17:12-24; 25:20-32; John 5:18-21:25).[2] It contains tables of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections, Eusebian Canons, subscriptions, στιχοι (in Luke), and pictures. Mark 14:40-16:20 was supplemented by a later hand.[3] The text is surrounded by a catena, it has many unusual readings.[3]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[4] It contains many unusual readings.[3]
History
In 1636 William Laud presented the manuscript to the Bodleian Library.[2] It was examined by Mill and Griesbach.[3]
It is currently housed in at the Bodleian Library (Laud. Gr. 33), at Oxford.[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. 49.
- 2. C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 140.
- 3. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 197.
- 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.
