Minuscule 115 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1096 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 53. It has marginalia.
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 271 parchment leaves (size ) with some lacunae (Matt. 1:1-8:9; Mark 5:23-36; Luke 1:78-2:9; 6:4-15; John 11:2-end).Kurt Aland, "Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum. Locis parallelis evangeliorum apocryphorum et patrum adhibitis edidit", Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1996, p. XXVII. The text is written in one column per page, in 19 lines per page.
It contains numbers of the (chapters) at the margin, some (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages, the Ammonian Sections, and sometimes the Eusebian Canons.
Text Hermann von Soden included the manuscript to the group Ifb, together with manuscripts 7, 179, 267, 659, 827, and parts of 185, 1082, 1391, 1402, 1606. It is classified to the Family 1424.
Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kx in Luke 10. In Luke 1 and Luke 20 it has mixture of Byzantine families.
History
In 1724 it belonged to Bernard Mould in Smyrna (as minuscule 116). It was examined by Griesbach, Bloomfield, and Scholz. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.
It is currently housed at the British Library (Harley MS 5559).
See also
List of New Testament minuscules Biblical manuscript Textual criticism
References
Further reading
Griesbach, Symbolae criticae ad supplendas et corrigendas variarum N. T. lectionum collectiones (Halle, 1793), p. CLXXXXV
External links Minuscule 115 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism Minuscule 115 at the British Library.