Minuscule 211

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| form = Minuscule | number = 211 | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek-Arabic | date = 12th century | found = | now at = Biblioteca Marciana | cite = | size = | type = mixed | cat = none | hand = | note = marginalia

Minuscule 211 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 234 (Soden), is a Greek-Arabic diglot minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. The manuscript is lacunose. It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 280 parchment leaves (size ), in quarto (four leaves in quire), with two lacunae (Luke 1:1-2:32; John 1:1-4:2). It is written in two columns per page, 26 lines per page.{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | pages = 167–168 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n179/mode/2up

The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 236 sections – with the last numbered section in 16:12), with references to the Eusebian Canons (irregularly inserted).

It contains the table of the κεφαλαια (table of contents) to Luke, synaxaria, Menologion, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, with numbers of ρηματα, and numbers of στιχοι.{{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 | volume = 1 | page = 220 In additional material it has Limits of the Five Patriarchates (like codices 69 and 543).

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a mixture of the text-types. Aland did not place it in any Category.{{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}}

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual group Λ in Luke 10 and Luke 20. In Luke 1 the manuscript is defective.{{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 contains the text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11).

History

It was examined by Birch, Burgon, and Lake. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.

It is currently housed at the Biblioteca Marciana (Fondo ant. 539), at Venice.

References

References

  1. Gregory, Caspar René. (1908). "Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament". J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung.
  2. K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", ''[[Walter de Gruyter]]'', Berlin, New York 1994, p. 59
  3. [[J. Rendel Harris]], ''The Origin of the Leicester Codex of the New Testament'' (London, 1887), pp. 62-65.
  4. Birch, ''[https://archive.org/details/variaelectiones00bircgoog Variae Lectiones ad Textum IV Evangeliorum]'', Haunie 1801, p. 429
  5. Birch, ''[https://archive.org/details/variaelectiones00bircgoog Variae Lectiones ad Textum IV Evangeliorum]'', Haunie 1801, p. LXV

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