Minuscule 25

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Minuscule 25
New Testament manuscript
Text Gospels
Date11th-century
Script Greek
Now at National Library of France
Size30.2 cm by 23.2 cm
Type Byzantine text-type
Category V
Noteincomplete marginalia

Minuscule 25 is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on vellum. It is designated by the siglum 25 in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts, and as A139 in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts. [1] Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it has been assigned to the 11th-century. [2] [3] It has incomplete marginal notation, and was adapted for liturgical use.

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Description

The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book format), containing the text of the four Gospels on 292 thick parchment leaves (sized 30.2 cm by 23.2 cm), with considerable missing portions. [4] The text is written in one column per page, 13 lines per page, with the surrounding commentary in 42 lines per page, in brown ink. The capital letters are in red ink. [5]

The text is divided according to the chapters (known as κεφαλαια / kephalaia), whose numbers are given in the margin, and their titles (known as τιτλοι / titloi) written at the top of the pages. There is no other division according to the Ammonian Sections or to the Eusebian Canons (both early divisions of the Gospels into sections, which are usually included in later manuscripts of the New Testament Gospels). [5]

It contains a Prolegomena, the chapter lists (also known as κεφαλαια) before each of the Gospels, lectionary markings in the margin for liturgical use (partially), and a commentary surrounding the Biblical text (the commentary in Mark is from the writings of Victorinus of Pettau). [5] [4] : 194  BIblical scholar Frederick H. A. Scrivener described the manuscript as "grandly written, but very imperfect". [4]

Missing sections: Matthew Mt 1:1-4:25; 23:1-25:42; 26:43-55; 28:10-20; Luke 20:19-22:46; John 12:40-13:1; 15:24-16:12; 18:16-28; 20:19-21:19-25. [6]

It has errors by iota subscriptum. [5]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is considered to be a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Biblical scholar Kurt Aland placed it in Category V of his New Testament manuscript classification system. [7] It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method (a specific analysis of textual data). [8]

History

The manuscript was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by textual critic Johann Jakob Wettstein, who gave it the number 25. It was examined and described by textual critics Johann J. Griesbach, Johann M. A. Scholz, and Paulin Martin. [9] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885. [5]

The manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 11th-century. [2] [3] It is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 191) in Paris. [2] [3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament [The Greek Manuscripts of the New Testament] (in German). Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs. p. 49.
  2. 1 2 3 Kurt Aland; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments[A Concise List of the Greek Manuscripts of the New Testament]. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 48.
  3. 1 2 3 "Liste Handschriften: Minuscule 25". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 2013-09-26.
  4. 1 2 3 Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1861). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 145.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes [Textual Criticism of the New Testament] (in German). Vol. 1. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs. p. 134.
  6. ↑ Kurt Aland, Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum. Locis parallelis evangeliorum apocryphorum et patrum adhibitis edidit, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1996, p. XXVII.
  7. ↑ Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism . Translated by Erroll F. Rhodes. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 138. ISBN   978-0-8028-4098-1.
  8. ↑ Wisse, Frederik (1982). The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke . Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 53. ISBN   0-8028-1918-4.
  9. ↑ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 38-39
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