Minuscule 194
11th-century Greek New Testament manuscript
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::summary 11th-century Greek New Testament manuscript ::
| form = Minuscule | number = 194 | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 11th century | found = | now at = Laurentian Library | cite = | size = | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = marginalia
Minuscule 194 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A130 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. It has marginalia.
Description
The codex contains almost complete text of the four Gospels, with a commentary, on 263 thick parchment leaves (size ). The 6th folio was supplied by later hand.
The text is written in one column per page, biblical text in 25 lines per page, and commentary text in 46 lines per page. The biblical text is surrounded by a catena (Victor's on St. Mark). Text of Matthew begins in 3:7.{{Cite book | last = Scrivener | first = Frederick Henry Ambrose | author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |author2=Edward Miller | title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1894 | location = London | edition = 4 | page = 218 | volume = 1
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 241 Sections, the last in 16:20) (no references to the Eusebian Canons).
It contains subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, with numbers of στιχοι, and pictures.{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = J.C. Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 165 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n177/mode/2up
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland | last2 = Aland | first2 = Barbara | author-link2 = Barbara Aland | others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) | title = The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1995 | location = Grand Rapids | page = 138 | url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}
It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.{{Cite book | last = Wisse | first = Frederik | title = The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1982 | location = Grand Rapids | page = 57 | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/57 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration
It lacks the text of Matthew 16:2b–3 (signs of the times).
History
It was examined by Birch, Scholz, and Burgon. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.
It is currently housed at the Laurentian Library (Plutei. VI. 33), in Florence, Italy.
References
References
- Gregory, Caspar René. (1908). "Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament". J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung.
- K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", ''[[Walter de Gruyter]]'', Berlin, New York 1994, p. 58.
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