Minuscule 112 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 146 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned 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. 53. The manuscript has complex contents and full marginalia.
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 167 parchment leaves (). The text is written in one column per page, 33 lines per page. The large initial letters in gold.
The text is divided according to the (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons (in Matthew 1-Mark 2 in the same line).In the same way arranged codices 192, 198, 212, 267, 507, 583, 584.
It contains the Epistle to Carpian, the Eusebian tables, tables of the (tables of contents) are placed before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), synaxaria, Menologion, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, and portraits of the Evangelists. According to Scrivener it is "a very beautiful copy".
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.Kurt Aland, and Barbara Aland, "The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism", trans. Erroll F. Rhodes, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995, p. 138.
According to the Claremont Profile Method in represents Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20; in Luke 10 no profile was made. It creates textual cluster 112.
History
The manuscript was examined by Scholz, who collated it partially. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.
It is housed at the Bodleian Library (E. D. Clarke 10) at Oxford.
See also
List of New Testament minuscules Biblical manuscript Textual criticism
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