Minuscule 3
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Minuscule 3 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 253 (von Soden). It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on a parchment. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 12th century.<ref name=Aland>K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 47. </ref> It was one of the manuscript used by Erasmus.
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Description
The codex contains entire of the New Testament except of the Book of Revelation in the order: Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, General epistles, and Pauline epistles on 451 parchment leaves, with size 24.5 cm by 17.5 cm. Written in one column per page, 24 lines per page (16.3 by 10.2 cm), in black ink.<ref name = Gregory/> It contains Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian tables, tables of κεφαλαια, Prolegomena, pictures, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections, Eusebian Canons, and Euthalian apparatus to the Acts and General epistles. Subscriptions were added by a later hand.<ref name = Gregory/> Text of the pericope John 7:53-8:11 omitted without any mark.<ref name = Gregory/>
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type with exception for the Catholic epistles. Aland placed it in Category V.
History
Radulph or Roland de Rivo presented this manuscript to the monastery of Virgin Mary in the village Corsendonck near Turnhout. Later it belonged to the monastery of Dominican Order in Basel. It was used by Erasmus in his second edition of Novum Testamentum in 1519.<ref name = Gregory>C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments" (Leipzig, 1900), vol. 1, p. 128.</ref> It had been collated by J. Walker for Bentley. This collation was never published.<ref name = Scrivener/> It was also collatted by Wettstein. The manuscript was also examined by Treschow, Alter and Wordsworth<ref name = Gregory/>. The manuscript was not cited in Nestle-Aland editions of Greek New Testament.
Alter used it in his edition of the Greek text of the New Testament.<ref>Novum Testamentum Graecum, ad Codicen Vindobonensem Graece expressum: Varietam Lectionis addidit Franciscus Carolus Alter, 2 vols. 8vo, Vienna, 1786-1787.</ref>
The codex is located now at the Austrian National Library (Cod. Suppl. Gr. 52) at Vienna.<ref name=Aland/>
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References
Further reading
- Treschow, Testament Descriptionis codicum veterum aliquot Graecorum Novi Foederis manuscriptorum (Copenhagen, 1773), pp. 85 ff.
- John Wordsworth, Od Latin hiblical Texts, Nr. 1, Oxford 1883, pp. XXIII-XXVI and 55-67.
