Minuscule 15
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New Testament manuscript |
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| Text | Gospels |
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| Date | 12th-century |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | Bibliothèque nationale de France |
| Size | 18.2 cm by 14.3 cm |
| Type | Byzantine text-type |
| Category | V |
| Note | full marginalia |
Minuscule 15 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 283 (von Soden). It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on 225 parchment leaves (18.2 cm by 14.3 cm), dated palaeographically to the 12th-century. It has liturgical books and full marginalia.
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels. It contains also liturgical books with hagiographies: synaxarion and Menologion.
The biblical text is written in one column per page, 23-24 lines per page. It was written in neat, and regular letters.
The first three pages are written in gold, with exquisite miniatures, four on page 2, four on page 3.
It has iota adscriptum.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, with the 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 (written below Ammonian Section numbers).
It contains Prolegomena, Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary equipment at the margin (for liturgical use), and pictures.
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type.Hermann von Soden classified it to Ak (the Byzantine commentated text).Aland placed it in Category V. According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.
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