Minuscule 51

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Minuscule 51
New Testament manuscript
TextNew Testament (except Rev.) †
Date13th century
ScriptGreek
Now atBodleian Library
Size30 cm by 22 cm
Categorynone
Noteunusual order of books

Minuscule 51 (in the

minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. Formerly it was labelled by 51e for the Gospels, 32a for the Acts, and 38p for the Pauline epistles.[2] It has marginalia
.

Description

The codex contains the text of the New Testament except Book of Revelation on 325 parchment leaves (size 30 cm by 22 cm) with a commentary. The text is written in two columns per page, 28 lines per page.[3][4]

The order of books is unusual: Acts, Pauline epistles, Catholic epistles and Gospels (as in codex 234).[2] It contains three lacunae (2 Peter 3:2-17; Matthew 18:12-35; Mark 2:8-3:4).[5]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. The text of the Gospels has also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, but the Eusebian Canons are absent. In the Acts and Epistles it has the Euthalian Apparatus.[5]

It contains Prolegomena at the beginning, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each sacred book, liturgical books with hagiographies (

Menologion), subscriptions at the end of each book, and lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use).[2]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the

Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx.[6] Kurt Aland did not place it in any Category.[7] According to the Claremont Profile Method it has Kx text in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.[6]

History

The manuscript was dated by Gregory to the 12th century.

INTF to the 13th century.[3][4]

In 1636 William Laud presented the manuscript to the Bodleian Library.[5]

C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.[5]

Formerly it was labelled by 51e for the Gospels, 32a for the Acts, and 38p for the Pauline epistles.[2] Gregory in 1908 gave for it number 51.[1]

It is currently housed in at the Bodleian Library (MS. Laud. Gr. 31), at Oxford.[3][4]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 50.
  2. ^ a b c d e f 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. pp. 197–198.
  3. ^
    Walter de Gruyter
    , Berlin, New York 1994, p. 49.
  4. ^ a b c "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
  5. ^ a b c d e f Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 140.
  6. ^
    ISBN 0-8028-1918-4
    .
  7. ISBN 3-438-06011-6
    .

Further reading

  • Franz Delitzsch, "Studien zur Entstehungsgeschichte der Polyglottenbibel des Cardinal Ximenes" (Leipzig, 1871).
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