Minuscule 237
| New Testament manuscript | |
| Text | Gospels |
|---|---|
| Date | 11th century |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | State Historical Museum |
| Size | 31 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]
Description
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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]
See also
[edit | edit source]References
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- ^ a b c 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.
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Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Kurt Treu, Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan, T & U 90 (Berlin, 1966), pp. 266–267.