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Date
  
11th century

Size
  
25.5 cm by 21 cm

Script
  
Greek

Type
  
Byzantine text-type

Text
  
New Testament (except Gospels)

Now at
  
Bibliothèque nationale de France

Minuscule 250 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), O 10 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.

Contents

Scrivener labelled it by 264a, 337p. Gregory labelled it by 250a, 299p, and 121r.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Book of Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline Epistles, and Book of Revelation on 379 parchment leaves (25.5 cm by 21 cm).

The biblical text is surrounded by a catena. The biblical text is written in one column per page and 20 lines in column, the text of commentary has 41 lines.

The Epistle to the Hebrews is placed after Epistle to Philemon.

It contains Synaxarion and the Euthalian Apparatus.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.

History

The manuscript was brought from Greece.

It was examined by Bernard de Montfaucon, Matthaei, Paulin Martin, Franz Delitzsch, and Herman C. Hoskier (only Apocalypse).

The manuscript is currently housed at the French National Library (Coislin Gr. 224) at Paris.

References

Minuscule 250 Wikipedia