Minuscule 272
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| form = Minuscule | number = 272 | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 11th century | found = | now at = British Library | cite = | size = | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = marginalia
Minuscule 272 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1182 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = K. | authorlink = Kurt Aland |author2=M. Welte |author3=B. Köster |author4=K. Junack | title = Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments | publisher = Walter de Gruyter | year = 1994 | location = Berlin, New York | page = 63 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 It has marginalia.
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 218 parchment leaves (). The text is written in one column per page, in 21 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. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons (mostly omitted).
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, Synaxarion, Menologion, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | authorlink = 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 | isbn =
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K1.{{Cite book | last = Wisse | first = Frederik | authorlink = | 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 | doi = | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration | last = Aland | first = Kurt | authorlink = Kurt Aland | last2 = Aland | first2 = Barbara | authorlink2 = 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 | doi = | id = | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}} According to the Claremont Profile Method in Luke 1 and Luke 20 it belongs to the textual family Kx. It creates textual pair with 419
Passage of Matthew 16:2b–3 (signs of the times) is excluded.
History
The manuscript once belonged to Melchisedek Thevenot († 1692), then it was held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 76). Thomas Rodd († 1822), librarian, purchased it for the British Museum.
The manuscripts was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794–1852).{{Cite book | last = Scrivener | first = Frederick Henry Ambrose | authorlink = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |author2=Edward Miller | title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. 1 | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1894 | location = London | edition = 4 | page = 226 | url = | isbn = C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1883.
The manuscript is currently housed at the British Library (Add MS 15581) in London.
References
References
- Gregory, Caspar René. (1908). "Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament". J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung.
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