Minuscule 232 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 455 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1302.K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 61. Scrivener deciphered the date as the year 1292.
Description
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels, on 289 parchment leaves (size ). The leaves are arranged in quarto (four leaves in quire).Emmanuel Miller, Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la bibliothèque de l'Escurial (Paris 1848), p. 281. The text is written in one column per page, 20-22 lines per page.
It contains the (titles of chapters) at the top and double Synaxarion. There are in the margins of Matthew and Luke. It is elegantly written, but the scribe used a poor source.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kx in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.
History
There is an inscription from 1514 made by one of its owners, Zacharias.
It was described by Daniel Gotthilf Moldenhawer, who collated it about 1783 for Andreas Birch. It was also collated by Matthaei. It was briefly described by Emmanuel Miller. Miller deciphered the date of the colophon as 1292.
It is currently housed at the Escurial (Cod. Escurialensis, y. III. 7).
See also
List of New Testament minuscules Biblical manuscript Textual criticism
References
Further reading
Emmanuel Miller, Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la bibliothèque de l'Escurial (Paris 1848), p. 281.