Minuscule 102
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Minuscule 102 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 499 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper leaves. Palaeographically it had been assigned to the 15th century.[1] Formerly it was labeled by 99a and 114p.[2]
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Description
The codex contains a complete text of the Acts, Pauline epistless on 111 paper leaves (size 29.1 cm by 21.8 cm). Written in one column per page, 34 lines per page.[1] It contains prolegomena, tables of κεφαλαια, Synaxarion, Menologion, Euthalian apparatus, and some Patristic writings (on folios 112-407), among them the Life and Speeches of Gregory Nazianzus.[3] It contains summaries of the journeys of St. Paul and his death.[2]
The manuscript was carelessly written.
History
According to the colophon it was written in 1444 by Theognostus, metropolitan of Perga and Attalia.[3] The colophon stayts:
μετροπολιτου περγης και ατταλειας θεογνωστου, υπερτιμου και εξαρχου της κενης δευτερας παμφυλιας. εν ατταλου τη μητροπολει αμβλυωπων. Αρχιερευς νειλος.[3]
From 1547 it was housed at the Iviron monastery at Mount Athos.[3]
It was examined by Matthaei.[3]
It is currently housed at the Museum of History of Moscow (V. 412, S. 5), at Moscow.[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. 52.
- 2. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 273.
- 3. F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament (George Bell & Sons: London 1894), Vol. 1, p. 292.
Further reading
- Leo Allanus, De libris ecclesiasticis Graecorum, Paris 1644, p. 53.
