Minuscule 205 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 500 (
Soden),
68 (Rahlfs), is a
Greek
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minuscule
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manuscript
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of the
Old
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and the
New Testament
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, on parchment, from the 15th century. It has some
marginalia
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Biblical manuscripts
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.
Description
The codex contains the text of the
New Testament
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on 441 parchment leaves (size ).
[K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", '']Walter de Gruyter
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History
The roots of the company go back to 1749 when Frederick the Great granted the Königliche Realschule in Be ...
'', Berlin, New York 1994, p. 59. The order of the books: Gospels,
Acts of the Apostles
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,
Catholic epistles
The catholic epistles (also called the general epistlesEncarta-encyclopedie Winkler Prins (1993–2002) s.v. "katholieke brieven". Microsoft Corporation/Het Spectrum.) are seven epistles of the New Testament. Listed in order of their appearance in ...
,
Pauline epistles
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, and Apocalypse. It is written in one column per page, in 55-56 lines per page.
It contains Prolegomena to Catholic and Pauline epistles, lists of the (''tables of contents'') before each book, numbers of the (''chapters'') are given at the margin in Greek and Latin, the (''titles of chapters'') at the top of the pages, and subscriptions at the end of each book.
[ Text of Mark 16:9-20 is marked by an ]obelus
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* Division sign
* Dagger
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.
It contains also the Old Testament (except Book of Daniel
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).[Amy S. Anderson, ''The Textual tradition of the Gospels: Family 1 in Matthew'', Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2004, p. 115.]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Caesarean text-type
In textual criticism of the New Testament, Caesarean text-type is the term proposed by certain scholars to denote a consistent pattern of variant readings that is claimed to be apparent in certain Koine Greek manuscripts of the four Gospels, but wh ...
in the Gospels and the Byzantine text-type
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in rest of books of the codex. Aland placed it in Category III in Gospels and Revelation, and in Category V in rest of books.
It is a member of the Family 1
Family 1 is a group of Greek Gospel manuscripts, varying in date from the 12th to the 15th century. The group takes its name from the minuscule codex 1, now in the Basel University Library, Switzerland. "Family 1" is also known as "the Lake Grou ...
in the Gospels. It creates a pair with 209.
History
Paleographically it has been assigned to the 15th century.[ The manuscript was written by John Rhosus for Cardinal ]Bessarion
Bessarion ( el, Βησσαρίων; 2 January 1403 – 18 November 1472) was a Byzantine Greek Renaissance humanist, theologian, Catholic cardinal and one of the famed Greek scholars who contributed to the so-called great revival of letters ...
(† 1472), together with the codices 354
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and 357. Rhosus was librarian of Cardinal. In 1468 it was sent to the library of Cardinal.[
It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Griesbach.
It was examined by ]Birch
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and Burgon.[ G. F. Rinck considers it in the Gospels a mere copy of the codex ]209
Year 209 ( CCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Commodus and Lollianus (or, less frequently, year 962 '' Ab urbe cond ...
. Burgon argued that both were transcribed from the same uncial archetype as codex 209
Year 209 ( CCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Commodus and Lollianus (or, less frequently, year 962 '' Ab urbe cond ...
. C. R. Gregory
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saw it in 1886.[
It is currently housed at the ]Biblioteca Marciana
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(Gr. Z 5), at Venice
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,[ together with the 205abs, which was thought to be a copy of 205.][ However, more recently Welsby has demonstrated that 205 is in fact the copy and 205abs the original. 205abs is now known as minuscule 2886 in the Gregory-Aland classification.][Welsby, ''A Textual Study of Family 1 in the Gospel of John'', Berlin; Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2014. ]
See also
* List of New Testament minuscules
The list of New Testament Minuscules ordered by Gregory-Aland index number is divided into three sections:
* List of New Testament minuscules (1–1000)
* List of New Testament minuscules (1001–2000)
* List of New Testament minuscules (2001– ...
* Septuagint manuscripts
The Septuagint (LXX), the ancient (first centuries BC) Alexandrian translation of Jewish scriptures into Koine Greek exists in various manuscript versions.
List of Septuagint manuscripts
There are currently over 2000 classified manuscripts ...
* Biblical manuscript
A biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. Biblical manuscripts vary in size from tiny scrolls containing individual verses of the Jewish scriptures (see ''Tefillin'') to huge polyglot codices (multi-ling ...
* Textual criticism
Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts or of printed books. Such texts may range in ...
References
Further reading
* G. F. Rinck
''Lucubratio critica in Acta Apostolorum, Epistolas catholicas et Paulinas''
Sumtu Fel. Schneideri: Basilae 1830.
* Kirsopp Lake
Kirsopp Lake (7 April 187210 November 1946) was an English New Testament scholar, Church historian, Greek Palaeographer, and Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Harvard Divinity School.
He had an uncommon breadth of interests. His mai ...
, ''Codex 1 of the Gospels and its Allies'', Texts and Studies, VII 3 (Cambridge, 1902).
External links
Minuscule 205
at the INTF
* R. Waltz
at the ''Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism''
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Greek New Testament minuscules
15th-century biblical manuscripts
Septuagint manuscripts