Minuscule 15

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Minuscule 15 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 283 (von Soden).[1] It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on 225 parchment leaves (Template:×), dated palaeographically to the 12th-century.[2] It has liturgical books and full marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels.Template:R It contains also liturgical books with hagiographies: synaxarion and Menologion.Template:R

The biblical text is written in one column per page, 23-24 lines per page.Template:R It was written in neat, and regular letters.Template:R

The first three pages are written in gold, with exquisite miniatures, four on page 2, four on page 3.Template:R

It has iota adscriptum.Template:R

The text is divided according to the Script error: No such module "Lang". (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, with the Script error: No such module "Lang". (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).[3]

It contains Prolegomena, Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, tables of the Script error: No such module "Lang". (tables of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary equipment at the margin (for liturgical use), and pictures.[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type.[4] Hermann von Soden classified it to Ak (the Byzantine commentated text).[5] Aland placed it in Category V.[6] According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.[5]

At the margin of Mark 16:8 it has questionable scholion: εν τισι των αντιγραφων, εως ωδε πληρουται ο ευαγγελιστης εν πολλοις δε, και ταυτα φερεται.Template:R

The text of the pericope John 7:53-8:11 is omitted.Template:R

History

Scholz dated it to the 10th-century, Gregory to the 12th-century.Template:R Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 12th-century.[7]

The manuscript was brought to Paris by Catherine de' Medici.Template:R It was in private hands, and became one of the manuscripts used by Kuster's in his revised reprint of Mill's Novum Testamentum Graecum (Paris 8).[8] Scholz examined a bigger part of Matthew, Mark and John in the codex. It was examined and described by Burgon and Paulin Martin.[9] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1884.Template:R

The codex is located now at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 64) in Paris.Template:R

See also

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