minuscule 249

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of John on 808 parchment leaves ({{×|31|23.5}}). The text is written in 1 column per page, 30 lines per page. The text of the Gospel of John is surrounded by a commentary (catena) of Nicetas's authorship.{{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 = 172

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n185/mode/2up

}}

The Greek text of the codex is a mixture of the text types. Aland did not list it to 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

| page = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n160 138]

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

| url-access = limited

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

In John 14:14 it has textual variant εαν τι αιτησητε τον πατερα instead of εαν τι αιτησητε με. The same variant appears in minuscule 397.UBS3, p. 390.

It is difficult to date on palaeographical grounds.

According to F. H. A. Scrivener and Hermann von Soden the manuscript was written in the 11th century. Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 12th century.{{Cite web|url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php|title=Liste Handschriften|publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research|access-date=8 March 2011|location=Münster}}

Formerly the manuscript was held at the Pantokrator monastery at Athos peninsula (as codex 74). It was brought to Moscow, by the monk Arsenius, on the suggestion of the Patriarch Nikon, in the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov (1645-1676). {{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 = 223

| volume = 1

}} It was examined by Matthaei and Treu.

The manuscript is currently housed at the State Historical Museum (V. 90, S. 93) at Moscow.

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

{{Reflist|2}}

• Ch. F. Matthaei, Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine (Riga, 1782-1788). (as s)
• Kurt Treu, Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan, T & U 90 (Berlin, 1966), pp. 274-275.

• [http://www.skypoint.com/members/waltzmn/Manuscripts1-500.html#m249 Minuscule 249] at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism
• {{Cite web | url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php|title=Liste Handschriften|publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research|access-date=8 March 2011|location=Münster}}

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Category:Greek New Testament minuscules

Category:12th-century biblical manuscripts