New Testament manuscript |
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Text | Gospels |
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Date | 12th century |
Script | Greek |
Now at | State Historical Museum |
Size | 15.5 cm by 12 cm |
Type | Byzantine text-type |
Category | V |
Note | marginalia |
Minuscule 247 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1192 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. It has marginalia.
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 223 parchment leaves (size 15.5 cm by 12 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 26 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).
It contains the tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, Prolegomena, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), Synaxarion, and Menologion.
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx.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. It belongs to the cluster 1193.
It contains remarkable readings.