Minuscule 199

{{New Testament manuscript infobox

| form = Minuscule

| number = 199

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| name = Codex S. Mariae

| sign =

| text = Matthew

| script = Greek

| date = 12th century

| found =

| now at = Laurentian Library

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| size = {{×|14.2|11.9}}

| type = Byzantine text-type

| cat = V

| hand =

| note = marginalia

}}

Minuscule 199 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1254 (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=55}} is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.{{Cite book |author1=K. Aland |author2=M. Welte |author3=B. Köster |author4=K. Junack | title = Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments | publisher = Walter de Gruyter | location = Berlin, New York | year = 1994 | edition = 2 | page = 59 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2}} It has complex contents and full marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 229 parchment leaves (size {{×|14.2|11.9}}).{{r|Aland}} The text is written in one column per page, in 27 lines per page (10 by 8 cm), in dark-brown ink, capital letters in gold.{{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 = 166

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n179/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 (in Mark 234 Sections, the last 16:9), with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers, with a harmony).{{r|Gregory}}

It contains the Eusebian tables, tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (tables of contents) before each Gospel, with iambic verses, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, with numbers of Verses, numbers of scholia,{{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 = 218

}}

numbers of {{lang|grc|στιχοι}}, and pictures.{{r|Gregory}}

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.{{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 = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n160 138]

| url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt

| url-access = limited

| isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}

History

The manuscript was presented by Antonio Corbinelli († 1423) to the Benedictine library of S. Maria monastery.{{r|Gregory}}

Birch and Dean Burgon examined this codex. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.{{r|Gregory}}

It is currently housed at the Laurentian Library (Conv. Sopp. 160), at Florence.{{r|Aland}}

References

External links

[http://www.csntm.org/Manuscript/View/GA_199 Minuscule 199] at the CSNTM

Category:Greek New Testament minuscules

Category:12th-century biblical manuscripts