New Testament manuscript | |
Name | Codex Escurialensis |
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Text | Gospels |
Date | 13th century |
Script | Greek |
Now at | Escurial |
Size | 24 cm by 19.3 cm |
Type | Byzantine |
Category | V |
Minuscule 227 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 382 ( Soden), [1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. [2] It has marginalia.
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels, on 158 parchment leaves (size 24 cm by 19.3 cm). [2] The leaves are arranged in quarto (four leaves in quire). [3] The text is written in one column per page, 27 lines per page. [2] Some leaves were dislocated by binder. [4]
The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections, whose numbers are given at the margin, but references to the Eusebian Canons are absent. [4]
It contains Prolegomena to the four Gospels, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, pictures. Many corrections were made by a later hand, which dates 1308. [5] [4] It contains portraits of the four Evangelists. [3]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the K1. [6] Aland placed it in Category V. [7]
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It belongs to the textual cluster Ω. [6]
A later hand, which dates from 1308, has been making corrections. [5]
The manuscript belonged to Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza (1578–1651), [8] [4] along with minuscule 819.
It was described by Daniel Gotthilf Moldenhawer, who collated it about 1783 for Birch (Esc. 5). [5] It was shortly described by Emmanuel Miller in 1848. [3]
It is currently housed at the Escurial (Cod. Escurialensis, X. III. 15). [2]