{{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''216''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Acts, Paul | script = Greek | date = '''1358''' | found = | now at = Lambeth Palace | cite = | size = {{×|25.5|17.5}} | type = | cat = none | hand = beautifully written | note = many corrections <br /> marginalia }}
'''Minuscule 216''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 469 (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 paper. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1358.<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. 60.</ref> It has marginalia.
== Description == The codex contains the text of the Acts, Catholic, and Pauline epistles on 236 paper leaves (size {{×|25.5|17.5}}), with some lacunae (1 Corinthians 11:7-27; 1 Timothy 4:1-5.8).<ref name = Aland/> The text is written in one column per page, 27 lines per page.<ref name = Aland/>
The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (''titles of chapters'') at the top of the pages.<ref name = Gregory/>
It contains prolegomena, journeys of Paul (as in 102, 206, 256, 468, 614, 665, 912), tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''tables of contents'') before each book, liturgical book synaxarion, subscriptions at the end of each book, and lectionary equipment at the margin.<ref name = Gregory>{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = J.C. Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 281 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n293/mode/2up }}</ref> It is beautifully written, with numerous corrections made by later hand.<ref>{{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 = 297 | volume = 1 }}</ref>
According to the subscription at the end of the Epistle to the Romans, the Letter was written προς Ρωμαιους εγραφη απο Κορινθου δια Φοιβης της διακονου; the same subscription have manuscripts: 42, 90, 339, 462, 466, 642;<ref>Bruce M. Metzger, ''A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament'' (2001), p. 477.</ref>
== Text == Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.<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 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n154 132], 138 | url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref>
In 1 Corinthians 2:14 it reads πνευματος (omit του θεου) along with 2, 255, 330, 440, 451, 823, 1827, and syr<sup>p</sup>.<ref>UBS3, p. 583.</ref>
== History == The manuscript was written by Theophanes.<ref name = Gregory/> It was examined by Scrivener and C. R. Gregory.<ref name = Gregory/>
It is currently housed at the Lambeth Palace (1183), at London.<ref name = Aland/>
== See also == {{Portal|Bible}} * List of New Testament minuscules * Biblical manuscript * Textual criticism
== References == {{Reflist}}
== Further reading == * F. H. A. Scrivener, ''An Exact Transcript of the Codex Augiensis'' (Cambridge and London, 1859), pp. 57–58.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0216}} Category:Greek New Testament minuscules Category:14th-century biblical manuscripts