Minuscule 102
{{New Testament manuscript infobox
| form = Minuscule
| number = 102
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| text = Acts, Pauline epistles
| script = Greek
| date = 1444
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| now at = State Historical Museum
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| size = {{×|29.1|21.8}}
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| cat = none
| hand = carelessly written
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Minuscule 102 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 499 (Soden),{{cite book|last=Gregory|first=Caspar René|author-link=Caspar René Gregory|title=Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament|url=https://archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n63/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=52}} is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 15th century.K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 52. Formerly it was labelled by 99a and 114p.{{cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = J. C. Hinrichs | date = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 273 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n285/mode/2up }}
Description
The codex contains a complete text of the Acts, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 111 paper leaves (size {{×|29.1|21.8}}). The text is written in one column per page, 34 lines per page.
It contains prolegomena, Argumentum (explanation of using the Eusebian Canons), tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (tables of contents) before each sacred book, liturgical books (Synaxarion and Menologion), Euthalian Apparatus, and some Patristic writings (on folios 112-407), among them the Life and Speeches of Gregory Nazianzus. It contains summaries of the journeys of St. Paul and his death (as in 206, 216, 256, 468, 614, 665, and 909, 912).
According to Scrivener the manuscript was "carelessly written".
Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.{{Cite book
| last = Aland
| first = Kurt
| author-link = Kurt Aland
| last2 = Aland
| first2 = Barbara
| author-link2 = Barbara Aland
| others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.)
| title = The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism
| publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
| year = 1995
| location = Grand Rapids
| pages = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n151 129], 138
| url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt
| url-access = limited
| isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}
History
According to the colophon it was written in 1444 by Theognostus, metropolitan of Perga and Attalia.{{Cite book
| last = Scrivener
| first = Frederick Henry Ambrose
| author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
|author2=Edward Miller
| title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament
| publisher = George Bell & Sons
| year = 1894
| location = London
| edition = 4
| volume = 1
| page = 292
}} The colophon states:
μετροπολιτου περγης και ατταλειας θεογνωστου, υπερτιμου και εξαρχου της κενης δευτερας παμφυλιας. εν ατταλου τη μητροπολει αμβλυωπων. Αρχιερευς νειλος.
In 1547 it was presented to the Iviron monastery at Mount Athos, where it was housed until 1655.
It was examined by Matthaei.
It is currently housed at the State Historical Museum (V. 412, S. 5), at Moscow.
See also
References
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Further reading
- Leo Allanus, De libris ecclesiasticis Graecorum, Paris 1644, p. 53.
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