Minuscule 149 Description
The codex contains the entire of the New Testament on 179 parchment leaves. The size of pages is 35.5 cm by 23.5 cm .[ 2] The text is written in one column per page, in 33-35 lines per page[ 2] (size of text is 22.6 cm by 13.9 cm ). The capital letters in red. 10 leaves in quire .[ 3] [ 4]
It contains Prolegomena to the Catholic and Pauline epistles, and liturgical equipment at the margin. The parchment is fine and white.[ 3]
The order of books is typical: Gospels , Acts , Catholic epistles , Pauline epistles , Revelation.[ 3]
History
Birch dated the manuscript to the 14th century, Gregory to the 15th century. Presently the INTF dated it to the 15th century.[ 2]
Amelotte quoted several of its readings. These readings were used by Wettstein .[ 8] The manuscript was examined by Birch (about 1782), and Scholz . C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.[ 3]
The text of Apocalypse was collated by Hoskier .
It is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Pal. gr. 171), at Rome .[ 2]
References
↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament . Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 53.
1 2 3 4 5 K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter , Berlin, New York 1994, p. 55.
1 2 3 4 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. pp. 158– 159.
↑ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose ; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament . Vol. 1 (fourth ed.). London: George Bell & Sons . p. 214.
↑ Frederik Wisse, The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence , William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1982, p. 55.
↑ Aland, Kurt ; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism . Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company . p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1 .
↑ Wisse, Frederik (1982). The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke . Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company . pp. 55, 107–108 . ISBN 0-8028-1918-4 .
↑ Johann David Michaelis, Introduction to the New Testament (London 1823), p. 350.
Further reading
Herman C. Hoskier , "Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse" (London, 1929), pp. 53–55.