Minuscule 237

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Minuscule 237
New Testament manuscript
Text Gospels
Date11th century
Script Greek
Now at State Historical Museum
Size31 cm by 23.5 cm
Type Byzantine text-type
Category V

Minuscule 237 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A13 (Soden), [1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. [2]

Contents

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 289 parchment leaves (size 31 cm by 23.5 cm). [2] The biblical text is surrounded by a commentary. A commentary to the Gospel of Mark is an authorship of Victorinus of Pettau. It contains pictures and scholia. [3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V. [4] It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method. [5]

The Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is placed after John 21:25. [3]

History

The manuscript was brought from the Athos (monastery Philotheus), by the monk Arsenius, on the suggestion of the Patriarch Nikon († 1681), in the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov (1645-1676). [6] The manuscript was collated by C. F. Matthaei. [3]

The manuscript is currently housed at the State Historical Museum (V. 85, S. 41) at Moscow. [2]

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References

  1. Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 56.
  2. 1 2 3 K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter , Berlin, New York 1994, p. 61.
  3. 1 2 3 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 171.
  4. 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 . Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p.  138. ISBN   978-0-8028-4098-1.
  5. 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.  57. ISBN   0-8028-1918-4.
  6. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament . 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 223.

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