Minuscule 293
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Minuscule 293 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 365 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Dated by a colophon to the year 1262.[1] Scrivener wrongly deciphered as November 1373 year.[2]
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Description
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 340 parchment leaves (13.3 cm by 8.9 cm), with lacunae (Mark 1:1-3:8). Written in one column per page, in 19-23 lines per page,[1] by several different hands. It contains Prolegomena, tables of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections (Mark 241 - 16:20), (not Eusebian Canons), Synaxarion, στιχοι, subscriptions, and pictures.[3] Ornamented with silver.[3]
Mark 1:1-3:8 was added by a later hand. It is a Palimpsest. The lower text was written in uncial letters, in two columns. It was Evangelistarion-Lectionary, dated paleographically to the 9th or 10th century.[1][2] The upper text of the palimpsest it is the text of minuscule 293.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[4]
History
The manuscript was written by Manuel for the wish of Blasius a monk.[2] It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).[5]
The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 117) at Paris.[1]
See also
References
- 1. Aland, K.; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 64. ISBN 3110119862.
- 2. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1861). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. London. p. 169.
- 3. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 176.
- 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. 138. ISBN 978-08028-4098-L.
- 5. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. 1. London. p. 225.
