Minuscule 99
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| form = Minuscule | number = 99 | image = | isize = | caption= | name = Codex Lipsiensis | sign = | text = Gospel of Matthew, Gospel of Luke † | script = Greek | date = 15th/16th century | found = | now at = Leipzig University | cite = | size = | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = marginalia
Minuscule 99 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 597 (von Soden), known as Codex Lipsiensis is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 15th or 16th century. The manuscript is very lacunose. It has marginalia and was adapted for liturgical use.
Description
The codex contains fragments of the Gospel of Matthew and Gospel of Luke on 22 leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, 21-23 lines per page (15.5 by 13.5 cm). To the present day only texts of Matthew 4:8-5:27; 6:2-15:30; Luke 1:1-13 have survived. The initial letters in red. Full of iotacism errors.{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 151 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n163/mode/2up
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin (only in Luke), and their τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, no references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, synaxaria (from 10th century), lectionary markings (for liturgical use), and incipits.{{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 = 207
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}} It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.{{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 = 54 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/54
In Matthew 10:12 it reads λεγοντες ειρηνη τω οικω τουτω for αυτην – the reading is supported by manuscripts: Sinaiticus*,2, Bezae, Regius, Washingtonianus, Koridethi, Φ, f1, 22, 237, 251, 1010, (1424), ℓ 49, it vgcl.
History
The manuscript was examined by Matthaei. Wettstein by number 99 designated Gregory's 155.
It is currently housed at the Leipzig University (Cod. Gr. 8), at Leipzig.
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. 49.
- [[Eberhard Nestle]], [[Erwin Nestle]], [[Barbara Aland]] and [[Kurt Aland]] (eds), ''[[Novum Testamentum Graece]]'', 26th edition, (Stuttgart: ''[[Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft]]'', 1991), p. 24
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