Minuscule 20

Minuscule 20 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A¹³⁸ (Soden).[1] It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 11th-century.[2][3] The manuscript has complex contents and full marginalia. It was prepared for the church reading.

Minuscule 20

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Text	Gospels
Date	11th-century
Script	Greek
Found	1669
Now at	National Library of France
Size	33.6 cm by 23.3 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Hand	carelessly written
Note	marginalia

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 274 thick parchment leaves (33.6 cm by 23.3 cm). The text is written in 1 column per page, biblical text in 36 lines per page, text of commentary in 51 lines per page.[4] According to F. H. A. Scrivener it is carelessly written.[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. There is also another division according to the Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).[4]

It contains tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each of the Gospels, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), subscriptions at the end of each of the Gospels, numbers of στιχοι, pictures, and catenae. It has the commentaries of (Chrysostomos in Matthew, Luke, and John, Victorinus in Mark).[5] It contains the famous Jerusalem Colophon.[4]

The text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is placed at the end Gospel of John, after 21:25.[4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex according to Aland is a representative of the Byzantine text-type, but according to David Alan Black of the Alexandrian text-type.[6] Aland placed it in Category V.[7]

It was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method.[8] Possibly it is a mixture of text types.

History

The manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 11th-century.[2][3]

The codex was brought from the East in 1669. It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by J. J. Wettstein, who gave it the number 20. It was collated by Scholz and W. F. Rose.[5] It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.[9] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.[4]

It is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 188) at Paris.[2][3]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Textual criticism

References

1. Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 49.
2. Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments (2 ed.). Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 48. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
3. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Archived from the original on 2018-02-20. Retrieved 2014-01-31.
4. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 133.
5. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 193.
6. David Alan Black, New Testament Textual Criticism, Baker Books, 2006, p. 64.
7. 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.
8. 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. 53. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
9. Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin (1883). Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris. Paris. pp. 31–35.