en Minuscule 2062

Minuscule **2062**
New Testament manuscript
Text	Book of Revelation
Date	13th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Vatican Library
Size	34.4 x 25.5 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I
Note	close to 2053

Minuscule 2062 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), O^α42 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on 29 paper leaves (34.4 by 25.5 cm). Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.^[1]

Description

The codex contains the text of the Book of Revelation with a commentary of Oecumenius on that book (together 159 leaves). Book of Revelation is on the end of this codex (pages 131–159).^[2]

The text is written in one column per page, in 46 lines per page.^[1]

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, though codex is not old its text has high value, comparable with Minuscule 2053. Aland placed it in Category I.^[3] It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.^[4]

The codex currently is housed at the Vatican Library (Vat. Gr. 1426), in Rome.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 165.
^ C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 323.
^ Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
^ Wisse, Frederik (1982). The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 83. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.

Minuscule 2062

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