Minuscule 115
| New Testament manuscript | |
| Name | Harley MS 5559 |
|---|---|
| Text | Gospels |
| Date | 11th |
| Script | Greek |
| Found | Smyrna, 1724 |
| Now at | British Library |
| Size | 18.5 cm by 15 cm |
| Type | Byzantine |
| Category | none |
| Note | member of Family 1424 |
Minuscule 115 (in the
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 271 parchment leaves (size 18.5 cm by 15 cm) with some lacunae (Matt. 1:1-8:9; Mark 5:23-36; Luke 1:78-2:9; 6:4-15; John 11:2-end).[3] The text is written in one column per page, in 19 lines per page.[2]
It contains numbers of the κεφαλαια (chapters) at the margin, some τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages, the Ammonian Sections, and sometimes the Eusebian Canons.[4]
Text
Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.[5]
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.[6]
History
In 1724 it belonged to Bernard Mould in Smyrna (as minuscule 116). It was examined by Griesbach, Bloomfield, and Scholz.[7]
It is currently housed at the
See also
- List of New Testament minuscules
- Biblical manuscript
- Textual criticism
References
- ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 52.
- ^ Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 53.
- ^ Kurt Aland, "Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum. Locis parallelis evangeliorum apocryphorum et patrum adhibitis edidit", Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1996, p. XXVII.
- ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 210.
- ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
- ^ a b Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs. p. 154.
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.