Minuscule 216
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| form = Minuscule | number = 216 | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Acts, Paul | script = Greek | date = 1358 | found = | now at = Lambeth Palace | cite = | size = | type = | cat = none | hand = beautifully written | note = many corrections marginalia
Minuscule 216 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 469 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1358. It has marginalia.
Description
The codex contains the text of the Acts, Catholic, and Pauline epistles on 236 paper leaves (size ), with some lacunae (1 Corinthians 11:7-27; 1 Timothy 4:1-5.8). The text is written in one column per page, 27 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages.
It contains prolegomena, journeys of Paul (as in 102, 206, 256, 468, 614, 665, 912), tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each book, liturgical book synaxarion, subscriptions at the end of each book, and lectionary equipment at the margin.{{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 = 281 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n293/mode/2up It is beautifully written, with numerous corrections made by later hand.{{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 = 297 | volume = 1
According to the subscription at the end of the Epistle to the Romans, the Letter was written προς Ρωμαιους εγραφη απο Κορινθου δια Φοιβης της διακονου; the same subscription have manuscripts: 42, 90, 339, 462, 466, 642;
Text
Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place 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 | pages = 132, 138 | url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}
In 1 Corinthians 2:14 it reads πνευματος (omit του θεου) along with 2, 255, 330, 440, 451, 823, 1827, and syrp.
History
The manuscript was written by Theophanes. It was examined by Scrivener and C. R. Gregory.
It is currently housed at the Lambeth Palace (1183), at London.
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. 60.
- Bruce M. Metzger, ''A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament'' (2001), p. 477.
- UBS3, p. 583.
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