Minuscule 245 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1226 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1199.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. It has marginalia.
Description
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 255 parchment leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, 21-23 lines per page. The leaves were arranged in quarto.
The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections whose numbers are given at the margin.
It contains the Eusebian Canon tables, tables of the (tables of contents) before each Gospel; it contains lectionary markings at the margin for liturgical reading. Synaxarion and Menologion were added by a later hand.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.
Hermann von Soden lists it as Is (along with codices 157, 235, 291, 713, 1012).
According to the Claremont Profile Method it has mixture of the Byzantine text-families in Luke 1. In Luke 10 and Luke 20 it represents textual cluster 1167.
History
The manuscript was written by John, a priest, in 1199. Formerly the manuscript was held at the monastery Vatopedi at Athos peninsula. It was brought to Moscow, in 1655, by the monk Arsenius, on the suggestion of the Patriarch Nikon, in the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov (1645-1676). The manuscript was collated by C. F. Matthaei.F. H. A. Scrivener, "A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament" (London 1861), p. 166.
The manuscript is currently housed at the State Historical Museum (V. 16, S. 278) at Moscow.
See also
List of New Testament minuscules Biblical manuscript Textual criticism
References
Further reading
C. F. Matthaei, Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine, (Riga, 1782-1788). (as o)
External links
Minuscule 245 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism