Minuscule 250
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| form = Minuscule | number = 250 | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = New Testament (except Gospels) | script = Greek | date = 11th century | found = | now at = Bibliothèque nationale de France | cite = | size = | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note =
Minuscule 250 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), O 10 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.
Scrivener labelled it by 264a, 337p. Gregory labelled it by 250a, 299p, and 121r.
Description
The codex contains the text of the Book of Acts, the Catholic epistles, the Pauline Epistles, and the Book of Revelation on 379 parchment leaves ().{{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 | pages = 284, 306, 322 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n297/mode/2up
The biblical text is surrounded by a catena. The biblical text is written in one column per page and 20 lines in column, the text of commentary has 41 lines.
The Epistle to the Hebrews is placed after Epistle to Philemon.
It contains Synaxarion and the Euthalian Apparatus.{{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 | pages = 303, 317 | volume = 1
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}}
History
The manuscript was brought from Greece.
It was examined by Bernard de Montfaucon, Matthaei, Paulin Martin, Franz Delitzsch, and Herman C. Hoskier (only Apocalypse).
The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Coislin Gr. 224) in Paris.
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. 61.
- Montfaucon, ''Bibliotheca Coisliniana'', pp. 174-279
- [[Paulin Martin. Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin]], ''Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris'' (Paris 1883), p. 126
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