Minuscule 81

New Testament manuscripts
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Minuscule 81
Surname	Codex Caesar-Vindobonensis
text	New Testament (excluding Gospels and Revelation)
language	Greek
date	1044
Storage location	British Library
size	18 x 12.6 cm
Type	Alexandrian text type
category	II

Minuscule 81 (numbered after Gregory-Aland ), α 162 ( from Soden ) is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on 282 sheets of parchment (18 × 12.6 cm). The manuscript is dated to the year 1044 by its colophon . The handwriting is incomplete.

description

The manuscript contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles , Catholic Epistles and Pauline Epistles with gaps (Acts 4,8-7,17; 17,28-23,9). It was written in one column with 23 lines each. The manuscript contains prolegomena, lists of the κεφαλαια (for James) and lectionary markings.

text

The Greek text of the Codex represents the Alexandrian text type with some Byzantine readings. Kurt Aland placed him in Category II .

history

According to its colophon, the manuscript was written by the monk Johannes at the request of a monk Jakob.

Tischendorf brought 57 sheets of this manuscript from Egypt to Europe in 1853 and sold them to the British Museum in 1854 . It was examined and published by Tischendorf.

The parts of the code are currently in the British Library (Add. 20003, 57 fol.) In London and in the library of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria (59, 225 fol.).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack: Brief list of the Greek manuscripts of the New Testament , Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 51.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Caspar René Gregory : Text criticism of the New Testament . tape 1 . Leipzig 1900, p. 269 ( Internet Archive ).
^ Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener: A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament . tape 1 . London 1894, p. 205 .
↑ Kurt and Barbara Aland : The text of the New Testament. Introduction to the scientific editions as well as the theory and practice of modern textual criticism . German Bible Society , Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-438-06011-6 , p. 324.

literature

Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener: An Exact Transcript of the Codex Augiensis . Cambridge and London 1859, pp. 68-70.
Constantin von Tischendorf : Anecdota sacra et profana . 1855, pp. 130-146.

Web links

Minuscule 81 in the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism

[Aland-1] K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack: Brief list of the Greek manuscripts of the New Testament , Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 51.

[Gregory-2] Caspar René Gregory : Text criticism of the New Testament . tape 1 . Leipzig 1900, p. 269 ( Internet Archive ).

[Scrivener-3] Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener: A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament . tape 1 . London 1894, p. 205 .

[4] Kurt and Barbara Aland : The text of the New Testament. Introduction to the scientific editions as well as the theory and practice of modern textual criticism . German Bible Society , Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-438-06011-6 , p. 324.