Minuscule 272
New Testament manuscript
Minuscule 272 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1182 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.
It has marginalia.
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 218 parchment leaves (14.3 cm by 12.5 cm). The text is written in one column per page, in 21 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons (mostly omitted).
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, Synaxarion, Menologion, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K1.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as new Testament manuscript. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 9, 2021. The linked authority identifier is Q6870118. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1182.
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