Minuscule 251

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| form = Minuscule | number = 251 | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 12th century | found = | now at = Russian State Library | cite = | size = | type = mixed / Byzantine | cat = none | hand = | note =

Minuscule 251 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 192 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. The manuscript has complex contents.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 270 parchment leaves (). The text is written in one column per page and 31 lines per page.

The text is divided according to the small Ammonian sections, whose numbers are given at the margin, but without references to the Eusebian Canons.

It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian Canon tables, lists of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel. It has 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 = 172 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n185/mode/2up

The text has some affinities with Minuscule 59.{{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 = 224 | volume = 1

Text

The Greek text of the codex has some the Byzantine readings, but it is not pure the Byzantine text. Hermann von Soden lists as II. Aland did not assign it to 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 = 139 | url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}

According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual cluster 1229.{{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

Textually it is close to the Codex Tischendorfianus IV.

History

The manuscript once belonged to Auxentius. Theophilus Zagoloras sent it to one of the monasteries at Athos peninsula in A.D. 1400. It was examined by Matthaei and Franz Delitzsch.

The manuscript is currently housed at the Russian State Library (F. 181. 9 (Gr. 9)) in Moscow.

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. 62
  3. It was brought to Moscow in 1655, by the monk Arsenius, on the suggestion of the [[Patriarch Nikon]], in the reign of [[Alexis of Russia. Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov]] (1645-1676). The manuscript was collated by [[Christian Frederick Matthaei. C. F. Matthaei]].[[Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener. F. H. A. Scrivener]], ''[[A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament]]'' (London 1894), vol. 1, p. 223.

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