Minuscule 270
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| form = Minuscule | number = 270 | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 12th century | found = | now at = Bibliothèque nationale de France | cite = | size = | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = marginalia
Minuscule 270 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 291 (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 346 parchment leaves (). The text is written in one column per page, in 19 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin of the text, and their τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 234 sections, the last in 16:9), with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).
It contains prolegomena to the Gospel of John, Synaxarion, Menologion, 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 = 174 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n187/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 | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Πb in Luke 1, family Πa in Luke 10 and Luke 20.{{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 = 58 | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/58 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration
History
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794–1852).{{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 = 225
The manuscript was bought from Spyridion Lambros from Athens in 1859, along with 22 other manuscripts of the New Testament (codices: 269, 271, 272, 688, 689, 690, 691, 692, 693, etc.).
Scholz examined a large part of the manuscript. Minuscule 270 was examined by Dean Burgon. It was examined and described by Paulin Martin. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.
Formerly the manuscript was held in the library of St. Silvester in Rome. The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 75) at 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. 63.
- [[Paulin Martin. Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin]], ''Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris'' (Paris 1883), p. 61
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