{{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''209''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = New Testament | script = Greek | date = 14th/15th century | found = | now at = Biblioteca Marciana | cite = | size = {{×|19.5|12}} | type = Caesarean, Byzantine | cat = III/V | hand = | note = member of the ''f''<sup>1</sup> }}

'''Minuscule 209''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 457 and α 1581 (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/n65/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=55}}</ref> is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 14th century, with an exception to the Book of Revelation which was added to the codex in the 15th century.<ref name = Aland>{{Cite book |author1=K. 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 | page = 59}}</ref> It has marginalia.

== Description ==

The codex contains the whole text of the New Testament on 411 parchment leaves (size {{×|19.5|12}}).{{r|Aland}} The text is written in one column per page, in 27 lines per page.<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 = 167 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n179/mode/2up }}</ref>

The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''chapters)'', whose numbers are given at the margin (also Latin), and their {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (''titles of chapters'') at the top of the pages. The text of the Gospels is also divided according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 236 Sections). There are no references to the Eusebian Canons.{{r|Gregory}}

It contains the Euthalian Apparatus in the Catholic epistles, and Prolegomena to the Apocalypse.<ref name = Scrivener/>

== Text ==

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Caesarean text-type in the Gospels and the Byzantine text-type in rest books of the New Testament. Aland placed it in Category III in Gospels and in Book of Revelation. The text of the rest books of New Testament of this codex belongs to Category V.<ref>{{Cite book | last1 = Aland | first1 = 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 | url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1995 | location = Grand Rapids | page = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n154 132] | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref>

The text of the Gospels is close to minuscule 205. But they are different in the Acts and the Epistles. It is a member of the textual family ''f''<sup>1</sup>.<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/57 57] | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/57 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration }}</ref>

Matthew 10:12 (see Luke 10:5) : It reads λεγοντες ειρηνη τω οικω τουτω (''say peace to be this house'') after αυτην. The reading was deleted by the first corrector, but the second corrector restored it. The reading is used by manuscripts: Codex Sinaiticus, Bezae, Regius, Washingtonianus, Koridethi, other manuscript of ''f'' <sup>1</sup>, 22, 1010 (1424), it vg<sup>cl</sup>.<ref>NA26, p. 24.</ref><ref>''Editio octava critica maior'', p. 49</ref> The manuscript contains the comma Johanneum, which was added into the margin during the 15th century, however it was written in Latin instead of Greek.<ref name=":2">{{Cite thesis |last=McDonald |first=G. R |date=2011 |title=Raising the ghost of Arius : Erasmus, the Johannine comma and religious difference in early modern Europe |publisher=Leiden University |type=Doctoral dissertation |hdl=1887/16486}}</ref>

== History ==

The manuscript once belonged to Cardinal Bessarion († 1472), who had it with him at the Council of Florence in 1439, and wrote many notes in it.<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 | page = 220 | volume = 1 }}</ref>

Hoskier reported in 1929 that Aldus used it to correct the Erasman text in his Greek New Testament of 1518.

It was examined and described by Birch, Engelbreth, Fleck, Rinck, and Burgon. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.<ref name = Gregory/>

It is currently housed at the Biblioteca Marciana (Fondo ant. 10), at Venice.<ref name = Aland/>

== See also == * List of New Testament minuscules * Biblical manuscript * Textual criticism

== References ==

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== Further reading ==

* G. F. Rinck, [https://books.google.com/books?id=HuaLkCPhJiMC ''Lucubratio critica in Acta Apostolorum, Epistolas catholicas et Paulinas''], Sumtu Fel. Schneideri: Basilae 1830. * {{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 = 167 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n179/mode/2up }} * See Family 1

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