Minuscule 260

Minuscule 260
New Testament manuscript
TextGospels
Date13th century
ScriptGreek
Now atNational Library of France
Size30.5 cm by 22.4 cm
TypeByzantine text-type
CategoryV
Handcorrectly written
Notemarginalia

Minuscule 260 is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, made of parchment. It is designated by the siglum 260 in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts, and ε 369 in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts.Using the study of comparaUsing the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it has been assigned to the 13th century. It has marginal notes.

Description

The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book format), containing the text of the four Gospels on 240 parchment leaves (sized 30.5 cm by 22.4 cm). The text is written in one column per page, in 24 lines per page.

The text is divided according to the chapters (known as κεφαλαια / kephalaia), whose numbers are given in the margin, and their titles (known as τιτλοι / titloi) written at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (241 in Mark, the last in 16:20), with references to the Eusebian Canons written below Ammonian Section numbers.

It contains Prolegomena, tables of contextns (also known as κεφαλαια / kephalaia) before each Gospel, and pictures. According to biblical scholar Frederick H. A. Scrivener, the manuscript is correctly written.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is considered to be a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Textual critic Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K. According to the Claremont Profile Method (a specific analysis of textual data), it represents textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20.

Biblical scholar Kurt Aland placed it in Category V of his New Testament manuscript classification system. Category V manuscripts are described as "manuscripts with a purely or predominantly Byzantine text.": 336  

History

The earliest history of the manuscript is unknown. It once belonged to "domini du Fresne" as codex 309. The manuscripts 260-469 were added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by biblical scholar Johann M. A. Scholz (1794-1852). It was examined and described by Scholz and scholar Paulin Martin. Biblical scholar Caspar René Gregory saw the manuscript in 1884.

It is currently dated by the INTF to the 13th century. The manuscript is presently housed at the National Library of France (shelf number Gr. 51) in Paris.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament [The Greek Manuscripts of the New Testament] (in German). Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs. p. 57.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Aland, Kurt; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments [A Concise List of the Greek Manuscripts of the New Testament]. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 62. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  3. 1 2 3 "Liste Handschriften: Minuscule 260". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 2026-09-23.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments [Textual Criticism of the New Testament] (in German). Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 173.
  5. 1 2 Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 225.
  6. 1 2 Wisse, Frederik (1982). The Profile Method for Classifying and Evaluating Manuscript Evidence. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 57. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
  7. 1 2 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. Translated by Erroll F. Rhodes. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  8. ↑ Martin, Jean-Pierre-Paul (1883). Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris [Technical Description of the Greek Manuscripts relating to the New Testament, conserved in the Libraries of Paris]. Paris: Maisonneuve frères et C. Leclerc. p. 53. Retrieved 2026-09-23.