Minuscule 180

{{New Testament manuscript infobox

| form = Minuscule

| number = 180 (see also 2918)

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| text = Gospels

| script = Greek

| date = 12th-13th centuries

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| now at = Vatican Library

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| size = {{×|18.7|13.5}}

| type = Byzantine/mixed

| cat = V (Acts III)

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| note = marginalia

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Minuscule 180 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1498, α 300 (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/n65/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=54}} is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. The Gospels palaeographically have been assigned to the 12th century, the rest of New Testament books are dated by colophon to the 1273.K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 57. Formerly it was deciphered as the year 1284.{{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

| page = 216

| volume = 1

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It has complex contents with full marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the entire of the New Testament on 444 elegant parchment leaves (size 18.7 cm by 13.5 cm),{{Cite web | url = http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/en_GB/liste/?ObjID=30180 | title = Liste Handschriften | publisher = Institute for New Testament Textual Research | access-date = 2019-09-26 | location = Münster}} with some apocryphal books. The Gregory-Aland number 180 has been retained for the Gospels, whereas the rest of the New Testament contained in the Codex has been renumbered GA-2918. The text is written in one column per page, in 22-26 lines per page, in light-brown or dark-brown ink, capital letters in red.{{Cite book

| last = Gregory

| first = Caspar René

| author-link = Caspar René Gregory

| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments

| publisher = J.C. Hinrichs

| year = 1900

| location = Leipzig

| volume = 1

| page = 163

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n175/mode/2up

}}

The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).

It contains tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (tables of contents), and lectionary markings at the margin for liturgical use. Liturgical books with hagiographies, Synaxarion and Menologion were added in the 15th century.

Order of books: Gospels, Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles, and Apocalypse. In Apocalypse last verse (22:21) and part of verse 21 is omitted. The Apocalypse is ending on 22:20 on word αμην.

It contains the Eusebian Canons. In the 15th century were added synaxaria and Menologion on paper.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is the Byzantine except in the Book of Acts. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K^x. Aland assigned it to Category V except the Book of Acts (Category III).{{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

| page = 129

| isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}} In Apocalypse is close to Uncial 046.

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20, and creates textual cluster 180.{{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/56 56]

| url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/56

| isbn = 0-8028-1918-4

| url-access = registration

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History

The Gospels were written by one Andreas, the rest of the New Testament and some apocryphal books by one John, November 1273.

The manuscript came from Cyprus, and together with Codex Borgianus, and Lectionary 37, belonged to the Velitran Museum of "Praesul Steph. Borgia, Collegii Urbani de Propaganda Fide a secretis".

It was examined by Bianchini, Birch (about 1782), and Scholz. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886. Herman C. Hoskier collated text of the Apocalypse.Herman C. Hoskier, Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse 1 (London, 1929), pp. 117-120.

It is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Borgiae gr. 18), at Rome.{{r|Aland}}