Minuscule 246

Minuscule 246

New Testament manuscript
Text	Gospels
Date	14th century
Script	Greek
Now at	State Historical Museum
Size	24.6 cm by 17.5 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	member of K^r

Minuscule 246 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 460 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century.[2]

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 189 paper leaves (size 24.6 cm by 17.5 cm),[2] with two lacunae (Matthew 12:41-13:55; John 17:24-18:20).[3] The text is written in one column per page, 26 lines per page.[2]

It contains tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin for liturgical use, marginal various readings.[4] Synaxarion and Menologion were added by a later hand.[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K^r. Aland placed it in Category V.[5]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family K^r in Luke 1 and Luke 20 as a perfect member. In Luke 10 no profile was made.[6]

History

Formerly the manuscript was held at Athos peninsula. 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). The manuscript was collated by C. F. Matthaei.[7]

The manuscript is currently housed at the State Historical Museum (V. 19, S. 274) at Moscow.[2]

See also

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

References

1. Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 56.
2. K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 61
3. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 172.
4. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 224.
5. Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
6. Wisse, Frederik (1982). The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. pp. 57, 92. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
7. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 223.

Further reading

• C. F. Matthaei, Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine, (Riga, 1782-1788). (as p)
• C. F. Matthaei, D. Pavli Epistolae ad Thessalonicenses et Ad Timotheum Graece et Latine (1782-1785), p. 263.
• 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. 249–251.