Minuscule 2613 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek
minuscule
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manuscript
A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand – or, once practical typewriters became available, typewritten – as opposed to mechanically printed or reproduced ...
of the
New Testament
The New Testament grc, Ἡ Καινὴ Διαθήκη, transl. ; la, Novum Testamentum. (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Christ ...
, on parchment. Dated
paleographically to the 11th century.
[K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, ''Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments'', Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 199. ]
Description
The codex contains the complete text of the four
Gospel
Gospel originally meant the Christian message (" the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was set out. In this sense a gospel can be defined as a loose-knit, episodic narrative of the words a ...
s on 321 parchment leaves (18 cm by 14.4 cm). The text is written in one column per page, in 18 lines per page.
[
Aland did not place it to any ]Category
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* Category of being
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* Category (Kant)
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.
According to the Claremont Profile Method
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it represents textual group M106 106 may refer to:
*106 (number), the number
*AD 106, a year in the 2nd century AD
*106 BC, a year in the 2nd century BC
*106 (emergency telephone number), an Australian emergency number
*106 (MBTA bus), a route of the Massachusetts Bay Transportatio ...
in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.
History
The codex now is located in the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of the Duke University (Gk MS 6) at Durham.[
]
See also
* 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� ...
* 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
External links
Minuscule 2613 at the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts
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Greek New Testament minuscules
11th-century biblical manuscripts
Duke University Libraries