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Minuscule 246 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 460 ( Soden), is a
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of the
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, on paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th 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. 61


Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four
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s on 189 paper leaves (size ), with two lacunae (Matthew 12:41-13:55; John 17:24-18:20). The text is written in one column per page, 26 lines per page. It contains tables of the (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin for liturgical use, marginal various readings.
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and
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were added by a later hand.


Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the
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.
Hermann von Soden Baron Hermann von Soden (16 August 1852 – 15 January 1914) was a German Biblical scholar, minister, professor of divinity, and textual theorist. Life Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 16, 1852, Soden was educated at the University of Tübinge ...
classified it to the textual family Kr. Aland placed it in Category V. According to the
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it belongs to the textual family Kr in Luke 1 and Luke 20 as a perfect member. In Luke 10 no profile was made.


History

Formerly the manuscript was held at
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peninsula. It was brought to Moscow, by the monk Arsenius, on the suggestion of the
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, in the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov (1645-1676). The manuscript was collated by C. F. Matthaei. The manuscript is currently housed at the
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(V. 19, S. 274) at
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.


See also

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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� ...
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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-li ...
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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

* C. F. Matthaei, ''Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine'', (Riga, 1782-1788). (as p) * C. F. Matthaei, ''D. Pavli Epistolae ad Thessalonicenses et Ad Timotheum Graece et Latine'' (1782-1785), p. 263. *
Kurt Treu Kurt Treu (15 September 1928 in Karja, Saare County, Estonia – 6 June 1991 in Vienna, Austria), was a German classical philologist. He was born the son of a German parson on the island Saaremaa, the largest island of Estonia. In 1940, because of ...
, ''Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan'', T & U 90 (Berlin, 1966), pp. 249–251. {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0246 Greek New Testament minuscules 14th-century biblical manuscripts