Minuscule 219 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 385 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 13th 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 a complete text of the four Gospels, on 232 parchment leaves (size ). It is written in one column per page, 21 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 233, 16:8), with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).
It contains the lists of the (tables of contents) before each Gospel, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family E.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 210. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It creates pair with 2217.
History
The manuscript once belonged to J. Sambucky († 1584). Francis Karl Alter used it in his edition of the Greek text of the New Testament.F. K. Alter, Novum Testamentum Graecum, ad Codicem Vindobonensem Graece expressum: Varietam Lectionis addidit Franciscus Carolus Alter, 2 vols. 8vo, Vienna, 1786-1787. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1887.
It is currently housed at the Austrian National Library (Theol. Gr. 321), at Vienna.
See also
List of New Testament minuscules Biblical manuscript Textual criticism
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