Minuscule 278b (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 162 ( Soden), is a Greek

minuscule Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (or more formally ''minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing ...

manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 10th century. The manuscript has been re-numbered Minuscule 2898. It has

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Description

The codex contains only the text of the Gospel of Matthew 13:43-17:5 on 9 parchment leaves (). The text is written in one column per page, in 20 lines per page. The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their (''titles of chapters'') at the top of the pages. There is also another text's division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type.

Kurt Aland Kurt Aland (28 March 1915 – 13 April 1994) was a German theologian and biblical scholar who specialized in New Testament textual criticism. He founded the '' Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung'' (Institute for New Testament Textua ...

placed it in Category V.

History

The major part of the codex lost, only 9 leaves have survived. They were added to another codex, written in 1072. The two unrelated manuscripts are now designated by the numbers

278 __NOTOC__ Year 278 ( CCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Probus and Lupus (or, less frequently, year 1031 ''A ...

, and 2898, having been formerly assigned the numbers 278a and 278b. The manuscript was once belonged to Mazarin. It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852). It was examined and described by

Paulin Martin Jean-Pierre-Paulin MartinSometimes referred to as Jean P.P. Martin. (20 July 1840 at Lacam-d'Ourcet, Lot – 14 January 1890 at Amélie-les-Bains, Pyrénées-Orientales), often referred to as Abbé Paulin Martin, or simply Abbé Martin or Pau ...

. Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, ''Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris'' (Paris 1883), p. 67

C. R. Gregory C. or c. may refer to: * Century, sometimes abbreviated as ''c.'' or ''C.'', a period of 100 years * Cent (currency), abbreviated ''c.'' or ''¢'', a monetary unit that equals of the basic unit of many currencies * Caius or Gaius, abbreviated as ...

saw the manuscript in 1885. The manuscript is currently housed at the

Bibliothèque nationale de France The Bibliothèque nationale de France (, 'National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites known respectively as ''Richelieu'' and ''François-Mitterrand''. It is the national repository ...

(Gr. 82, fol. 42-50) at Paris.

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