Minuscule 213 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 129 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. 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. 60. It has marginalia.
Description
The codex contains almost complete text of the four Gospels, with only one lacunae, on 356 parchment leaves (size ); the leaves are arranged in octavo (8 leaves in quire). The text of John 19:6-21:25 was supplied in the 14th or 15th century.
The text is written in one column per page, 18 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, the (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 234, 16:9), with references to the Eusebian Canons, but often irregular used.
It contains the Eusebian Canon tables at the beginning, lectionary markings at the margin for liturgical reading, a few (lessons), pictures, and numbers of Verses at the end of each Gospel.
Text
The Greek text of the codex Kurt Aland did not include its text to any Category.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it has mixed text in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.
It lacks the text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11).A. Birch, Variae Lectiones ad Textum IV Evangeliorum, Haunie 1801, p. 427
History
The manuscript was examined by BirchA. Birch, Variae Lectiones ad Textum IV Evangeliorum, Haunie 1801, p. LXV and Burgon. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.
It is currently housed at the Biblioteca Marciana (Gr. Z 542), at Venice.
See also
List of New Testament minuscules Biblical manuscript Textual criticism
References
Further reading
J. Neville Birdsall, The Missing Leaves of Codex 213 of the New Testament JTS IX (1958), pp. 78–81.
External links
R. Waltz, Minuscule 213 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism