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.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3] Subscriptions were added by a later hand.[2] Text of the pericope John 7:53-8:11 omitted without any mark.[2]
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.[4] It belongs to the textual family Family Kx.[5]
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.[2] It had been collated by J. Walker for Bentley. This collation was never published.[3] It was also collatted by Wettstein. The manuscript was also examined by Treschow, Alter and Wordsworth[2]. 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.[6]
The codex is located now at the Austrian National Library (Cod. Suppl. Gr. 52) at Vienna.[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. 47.
- 2. C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments" (Leipzig, 1900), vol. 1, p. 128.
- 3. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894 (2005 reprint)). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. 1. London. p. 191.
- 4. Aland, Kurt; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- 5. F. Wisse, The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1982, p. 53.
- 6. Novum Testamentum Graecum, ad Codicen Vindobonensem Graece expressum: Varietam Lectionis addidit Franciscus Carolus Alter, 2 vols. 8vo, Vienna, 1786-1787.
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.
