Minuscule 259

Minuscule 259 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A¹²² (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.^[2] It has marginalia.

Minuscule 259

New Testament manuscript
Text	Gospels
Date	11th century
Script	Greek
Now at	State Historical Museum
Size	28.5 cm by 21 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	marginalia

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 263 parchment leaves (28.5 cm by 21 cm).^[2][3] The biblical text is surrounded by a catena.^[3]

The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections, whose numbers are given at the margin, with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).^[4]

It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian tables, Prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents), Menologion, Synaxarion, and commentaries (Victor's on Mark).^[4][5]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[6] It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.^[7]

The Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is placed at the end of John after 21:25.^[4] Text is close to codex 250.

History

Formerly the manuscript was held at the Iviron monastery at Athos peninsula. It was brought to Moscow, by the monk Arsenius, on the suggestion of the Patriarch Nikon, in the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov (1645-1676). The manuscript was collated and examined by C. F. Matthaei. According to Scrivener it was one of the best manuscript examined by Matthaei.^[5]

The manuscript is currently housed at the State Historical Museum (V. 86, S. 44) at Moscow.^[2]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

1. Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 57.
2. K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 62.
3. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
4. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. pp. 172–173.
5. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 225.
6. Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
7. Wisse, Frederik (1982). The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 57. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.

Further reading

• C. F. Matthei, Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine, (Riga, 1782-1788).
• 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. 268–270.