Minuscule 129
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Minuscule 129 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A200 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 12th century.[1]
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Description
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 355 parchment leaves (size 28.7 cm by 22.6 cm).[2] Written in one column per page, 18 lines of bilical text and 44 lines commentarian text per page.[3] It contains the Eusebian tables, prolegomena, tables of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections (Mark 233 - 16:8), Eusebian Canons, Synaxarion, Menologion, pictures, scholia, Victor's commentary on Mark, and note on John 7:53, as in 145 and others.[4] John 8:3-11 on the end of the fourth Gospel, on 355 folio.[5]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[6]
History
The manuscript was written by Eustathius. In 1438 it was bought in Constantinople by Nicholas de Cuza, Eastern Legate to the Council of Ferrara, together with minuscule 87.[7]
It is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Vat. gr. 358), at Rome.[7]
See also
References
- ^ a b c K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 54.
- ^ a b c Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 156.
- ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 212.
- ^ 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.
