Minuscule 204
{{New Testament manuscript infobox
| form = Minuscule
| number = 204
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| text = New Testament (except Rev.)
| script = Greek
| date = 13th century
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| now at = Bologna University
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| size = {{×|19.7|13.7}}
| type = Byzantine text-type
| cat = V
| hand =
| note = member of Kr
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Minuscule 204 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 357 (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. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 13th 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. 59.
Description
The codex contains the text of the New Testament (except Book of Revelation) on 443 parchment leaves (size {{×|19.7|13.1}}). The order of books: Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles. The text is written in one column per page, in 25 lines per page.{{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
| pages = 166–167
| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n179/mode/2up
}}
It has no the Epistula ad Carpianum.{{Clarify|date=August 2018}} The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the τιλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There are no a division{{Clarify|date=August 2018}} according to the Ammonian Sections.{{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 = 219
| volume = 1
}}
It contains Prolegomena, Eusebian Canon tables, synaxaria, numbered {{lang|grc|αναγνωσεις}} (lessons), lectionary equipment at the margin, Menologion, subscriptions at the end of each book, numbers of stichoi, pictures, and the Euthalian Apparatus.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx. 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 = 138
| isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}} According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family Kr in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It belongs to the subgroup 35.{{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
| pages = [https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/57 57, 92]
| url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/57
| isbn = 0-8028-1918-4
| url-access = registration
}}
History
Formerly the manuscript belonged to the monastery S. Salvator in Bologna.
It was examined by Birch, Scholz, Dean Burgon, and Oscar von Gebhardt. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.
Since 1867 it is housed at the Bologna University (2775), at Bologna.
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{Cite book
| last = Gregory
| first = Caspar René
| author-link = Caspar René Gregory
| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments
| publisher = J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung
| year = 1900
| location = Leipzig
| volume = 1
| pages = 166–167
| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n179/mode/2up
}}
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