Minuscule 156
From Textus Receptus
Minuscule 156 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 206 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 12th century.
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Description
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 244 parchment leaves (size 12 cm by 10 cm). Written in one column per page, in 23 lines per page (size of text 8.2 by 6.7 cm). Titles in gold.
It contains tables of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections (Mark 241 - 16:20), (not Eusebian Canons), synaxaria, stichoi, but not the Eusebian Canons.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.
It belongs to the textual family Family Kx.
History
On the first of its page it is written: "Ex bibliotheca [Melchioris] Goldasti" († 1625).
It was examined by Birch, Scholz, and Oskar von Gebhardt.
It is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Reg. gr. 189), at Rome.
See also
References
- ^ a b c d K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 56.
- ^ a b c d C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 159.
- ^ 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. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ F. Wisse, The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1982, p. 56.
- ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 214.
