{{Short description|Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament}} {{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''11''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 14th-century | found = | now at = National Library of France | cite = | size = {{×|16.2|9.3}} | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = neatly written | note = }}
'''Minuscule 11''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 297 (Soden).<ref name = Gregory1908>{{Cite book|last=Gregory|first=Caspar René|author-link=Caspar René Gregory|title=Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament|url=https://archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n59/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=48}}</ref> It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament in two small volumes. The first volume has 230 leaves, the second volume has 274 leaves parchment ({{×|16.2|9.3}}). Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th-century.<ref name=Aland>{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = K. | author-link = Kurt Aland | author2 = M. Welte | author3 = B. Köster | author4 = K. Junack | title = Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments | publisher = Walter de Gruyter | location = Berlin, New York | year = 1994 | edition = 2 | page = 47 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2}}</ref>
== Description ==
The codex contains the complete text of the four Gospels. The text is written in one column per page, 16 lines per page, in neat letters.{{r|Aland}}
The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφάλαια}} (''chapters''), whose numbers are placed at the margin, and their {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (''titles'') at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the shorter the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 233 sections, the last in 16:7), whose numbers are placed at the margin, with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).{{r|Gregory}}
It contains the Eusebian Canon tables, placed before each Gospel, and portraits of the Evangelists.<ref name = Gregory>{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes | publisher = J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 130 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n143/mode/2up }}</ref>
== Text ==
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type, but there are some Alexandrian readings.<ref name = Tischendorf>{{Cite book | author = C.v. Tischendorf | url = https://archive.org/stream/novumtestamentu00tiscgoog#page/n218/mode/2up | title = Novum Testamentum Graece. Editio Septima | location = Lipsiae | year = 1859 | page = CXCV}}</ref> Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland | last2 = Aland | first2 = Barbara | author-link2 = Barbara Aland | others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) | title = The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1995 | location = Grand Rapids | page = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n160 138] | url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref>
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Π<sup>b</sup> in Luke 1, and K<sup>x</sup> in Luke 10 and Luke 20.<ref name = Wisse>{{Cite book | last = Wisse | first = Frederik | title = The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1982 | location = Grand Rapids | page = [https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/53 53] | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/53 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration }}</ref>
== History ==
The manuscript was dated by C. R. Gregory to the 12th century.{{r|Gregory}} Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 14th-century.<ref name = INTF>{{Cite web | url = http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/liste | title = Liste Handschriften | publisher = Institute for New Testament Textual Research | access-date = 2013-05-01 | location = Münster | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180220015104/http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/liste | archive-date = 2018-02-20 | url-status = dead }}</ref>
It was in private hands, and belonged to the Archbishop of Reims Le Tellier (1671–1710), like codices 10, 13.<ref name = Scrivener>{{Cite book | last = Scrivener | first = Frederick Henry Ambrose | author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener | author2 = Edward Miller | title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1894 | location = London | edition = 4 | volume = 1 | page = 192 }}</ref> It was used by Kuster in his edition of the Greek New Testament (as Paris 4). The manuscript was examined by Scholz. It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.<ref>{{Cite book | author = Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin | author-link = Paulin Martin | title = Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris | location = Paris | year = 1883 | page = 24}}</ref> C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.{{r|Gregory}}
The codex is located at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 121.122) in Paris,{{r|Aland|INTF}} which [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b85722313/f001.image has images of the entire manuscript on its website].
== See also ==
* List of New Testament minuscules * Textual criticism
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
== Further reading ==
* {{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes | publisher = J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 130 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n143/mode/2up }}
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