Minuscule 206 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 365 ( Soden), is a

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of the

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, partly on parchment, partly on paper (like codex 69). Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 15th century.K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", ''

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'', Berlin, New York 1994, p. 59. It has marginalia. Formerly it was assigned by 214^a and 270^p. Scrivener labelled it by 182^a.

Description

The codex contains the text of the

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Pauline epistles The Pauline epistles, also known as Epistles of Paul or Letters of Paul, are the thirteen books of the New Testament attributed to Paul the Apostle, although the authorship of some is in dispute. Among these epistles are some of the earliest extan ...

, and

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on 397 leaves (size ), with some lacunae (Acts 1:1-12:3; 13:5-15(?); 2 John-Jude). The text is written in 1 column per page, 20 lines per page. The order of books: Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles. It has some additional matter, like Journeys of Paul (as Minuscule 102, 216, 256,

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, 665,

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, 912). The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin. It contains Prolegomena, tables of the (''tables of contents'') before each book, lectionary markings at the margin,

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, and

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, and subscriptions at the end of each book. 2 John, 3 John, and Epistle Jude were supplied in the 14th century.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the

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in the Catholic epistles and the

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in rest of the books of the codex. Aland placed it in Category III in the Catholic epistles, and in Category V in rest of books. In the Pauline epistles text is close to the codices 429, 522, 1891, and 2815. In 2 Timothy 2:14 it reads Χριστου (''of Christ'') for θεοῦ (''of God'') along with 429, 1758.UBS3, p. 733-734.

History

The manuscript was brought by Carlyle from a Greek island to England (along with

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). It was examined and described by Scrivener. Formerly it was assigned by 214^a and 270^p. In 1908 C. R. Gregory gave number 206 for it. Formerly it was housed at the

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. It is currently housed at the Antiquariat Christi (1182), in

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Minuscule 206
at the ''Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0206 Greek New Testament minuscules 13th-century biblical manuscripts

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