Minuscule 234


Minuscule 234, δ 365, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1278. It has liturgical books and marginalia.

Description

The codex contains entire text of the New Testament, on 315 thick parchment leaves. The text is written in two columns per page, 35 lines per page, in black ink, the capital letters in red. The order of books is unusual, the same as in codex 51: Acts, Pauline epistles, Catholic epistles, Gospels.
The text is divided according to κεφαλαια, whose numbers are given at the margin, the τιτλοι at the top. The text of the Gospels has also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains Prolegomena to the four Gospels, Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian Canon tables, tables of the κεφαλαια before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin, incipits, liturgical books with hagiographies, Verses in Matthew and Mark, Euthalian Apparatus in the Catholic epistles, Hebrews has three Prolegomena. The text has many corrections.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland did not place it in any Category.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It belongs to the textual cluster 74.

History

The manuscript is one of several copies written by Theodore Hagiopetrites. It was bought at Venice by Friedrich Rostgaard in 1699. It was examined by Hensler, Birch, Delitzsch, Graux, and C. R. Gregory.
It is currently housed at the Det Kongelige Bibliotek at Copenhagen.