Minuscule 112

{{New Testament manuscript infobox

| form = Minuscule

| number = 112

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| text = Gospels

| script = Greek

| date = 11th century

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| now at = Bodleian Library

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| size = {{×|14.5|11.3}}

| type = Byzantine text-type

| cat = V

| hand = beautifully written

| note = marginalia

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Minuscule 112 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 146 (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 parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th 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. 53. The manuscript has complex contents ad full marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 167 parchment leaves ({{×|14.5|11.3}}). The text is written in one column per page, 33 lines per page. The large initial letters in gold.{{Cite book

| last = Gregory

| first = Caspar René

| author-link = Caspar René Gregory

| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments

| publisher = Hinrichs

| year = 1900

| location = Leipzig

| volume = 1

| page = 153

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n165/mode/2up

}}

The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons (in Matthew 1-Mark 2 in the same line).In the same way arranged codices 192, 198, 212, 267, 507, 583, 584.

It contains the Epistle to Carpian, the Eusebian tables, tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (tables of contents) are placed before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), synaxaria, Menologion, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, and portraits of the Evangelists. According to Scrivener it is "a very beautiful copy".{{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 = 210

}}

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.Kurt Aland, and Barbara Aland, "The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism", trans. Erroll F. Rhodes, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995, p. 138.

According to the Claremont Profile Method in represents K^x in Luke 1 and Luke 20; in Luke 10 no profile was made. It creates textual cluster 112.{{Cite book

| last = Wisse

| first = Frederik

| title = The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke

| publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

| year = 1982

| location = Grand Rapids

| page = [https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/54 54]

| url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/54

| isbn = 0-8028-1918-4

| url-access = registration

}}

History

The manuscript was examined by Scholz, who collated it partially. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.

It is housed at the Bodleian Library (E. D. Clarke 10) at Oxford.

Minuscule 112

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