Minuscule 301
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| form = Minuscule | number = 301 | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 11th century | found = | now at = Bibliothèque nationale de France | cite = | size = | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = marginalia
Minuscule 301 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A156 (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 = Kurt |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 = 65 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }} It has marginalia.
Description
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 221 parchment leaves () with a commentary. The text is written in one column per page, the biblical text in 22 lines per page, the text of a commentary in 48 lines per page.
It contains tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, a division according to the Ammonian Sections, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, and numbers of στιχοι. It lacks references to the Eusebian Canons.{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 176 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n189/mode/2up
Biblical text is surrounded by a catena. In the Gospel of Mark, the commentary is of Victorinus's authorship.
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}} According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family Kx and creates textual pair with Minuscule 373 in Luke 1, 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 = 59 | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/59 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration
The Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is placed at the end of John.
History
The manuscript once belonged to Jean Hurault de Boistaillé (like codices 10, 203, 263, 306, 314).
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 | volume = 1 | edition = 4 | page = 225 It was examined and described by Scholz, Paulin Martin, and C. R. Gregory.
The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 187) at Paris.
References
References
- Gregory, Caspar René. (1908). "Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament". J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung.
- [[Paulin Martin. Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin]], ''Description technique des manuscrits grecs relatifs au Nouveau Testament, conservés dans les bibliothèques de Paris'' (Paris 1883), p. 78.
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