Minuscule 151

{{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''151''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 10th century | found = | now at = Vatican Library | cite = | size = {{×|24.5|12.5}} | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = some rare readings marginalia }}

'''Minuscule 151''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A17 (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/n63/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=53}}</ref> is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 10th century.<ref name = Aland>K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", ''Walter de Gruyter'', Berlin, New York 1994, p. 55</ref> The manuscript has complex contents. It has marginalia.

== Description ==

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 224 parchment leaves (size {{×|24.5|12.5}}) with a commentary.<ref name = Aland/>

The text is written in one column per page, in 28 lines per page. Ink is black, the capital letters in colour and gold.<ref name = Gregory>{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 159 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n171/mode/2up }}</ref>

The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin of the text, and their {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (''titles of chapters'') at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 241, last numbered section in 16:20), without references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).<ref name = Gregory/>

It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''tables of contents'') are given before each Gospel, pictures, and scholia in the margin,<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 | edition = fourth | location = London | volume = 1 | page = 214 }}</ref> Menologion, stichoi, and pictures. Hebrew words explained at the beginning.<ref name = Gregory/>

== Text ==

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. 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 the textual family Kx in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. It belongs to the textual cluster Ω.<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/55 55] | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/55 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration }}</ref>

The spurious texts of Matthew 16:2b–3 (''signs of the times'') and the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) are omitted.<ref name = Gregory/>

It contains some rare readings (e.g. John 19:14).<ref name = Scrivener/>

== History ==

Birch and Scrivener dated it to the 11th century. Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 10th century.<ref name = Aland/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=30151|title=Liste Handschriften|publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research|access-date=3 September 2012|location=Münster}}</ref>

It was examined by Birch (about 1782) and Scholz. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.<ref name = Gregory/>

Text of Mark 16:8-20 of the codex was used by Cardinal Angelo Mai in his edition of the text of Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209 ("pseudo-facsimile" published posthumously in 1857).<ref>Constantin von Tischendorf, ''Editio Octava Critica Maior'' (Lipsiae, 1884), vol. III, p. 364.</ref>

It is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Pal. gr. 220), at Rome.<ref name = Aland/>

== See also == {{Portal|Bible}} * List of New Testament minuscules * Biblical manuscript * Textual criticism

== References ==

== Further reading ==

* {{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 159 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n171/mode/2up }}

== External links == * {{Cite web|url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=30151|title=Liste Handschriften|publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research|access-date=3 September 2012|location=Münster}}

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