Codex Basilensis A. N. IV. 2

Minuscule 1 ( in the Gregory- Aland numbering ), ε 254 ( Soden), is a Greek Minuskelhandschrift the New Testament. Previously, she was named as 1eap, to distinguish them from minuscule 1RK, which previously used the number 1. The manuscript consists of 297 parchment leaves ( 18.5 x 11.5 cm). Using palaeography was dated the manuscript to the 12th century. It was written with one column per page, each with 38 rows. In addition, it had beautiful miniatures that were stolen before 1860.

Description

The Code contains the complete New Testament without the Book of Revelation. The order of the books is Gospels, Acts, Catholic Epistles and Pauline Epistles. The book of Hebrews is listed as the last book of Paul.

The manuscript was written continuously and without distinction in lowercase. Initials are written in golden letters. It contains the Ammonischen sections, but lacking the Eusebische canon. Also included are Prolegomena, Synaxarium and images. In Acts, the Catholic Epistles and the letters of Paul the Euthalische Apparatus is included.

Also the text critically dubious secondary Markus final 16:9-12 is included. The Pericope adulterae is classified according to John 21:25.

The Code is available at the University Library of Basel (AN IV, 2).

History of the Code

The manuscript was the monastery of the Preaching Brothers ends of Cardinal Ragusio (1380-1443), head of the Dominican Order, passed. It was borrowed from Reuchlin and of Desiderius Erasmus for the first edition of his Novum Testamentum ( 1516) used. As a result, some readings found their way into the Textus Receptus. However, Erasmus used the code very little, as his text differs from the manuscripts, with which he was familiar. Oecolampadius and Gerbelius, the correctors of Erasmus wanted to obtain that more interpretations of this Code are used in the third edition. However, according to Erasmus, the text of the Code had been changed by Latin manuscripts and therefore only of second-rate. Since 1559 he is kept in the University of Basel.

Wettstein was the first fully examined him. According to his investigations of the text with the most ancient codes and quotations of the Church Fathers match. In 1751 he changed his high opinion ( Novum Testamentum graecum ). Wettstein collated the manuscripts again, but he made ​​a few mistakes. According Tregelles its collation was flawed in more than 1200 readings. Tregelles and Roth therefore created a new collation. Tregelles noticed that the code is similar to Minuscule 118. Dean Burgon also noticed a similarity to the codes 131 and 209 This whole group was investigated in 1902 by Kirsopp Lake. It is thus referred to as the " Lake Group " or family 1.

Text of the Code

The Greek text of the Gospels represents the Caesarean text-type. Aland placed it in Category III. The remaining books of the New Testament in this code represent the Byzantine text-type. Aland places it in a category V. He belongs together with the manuscripts 118, 131 and 209 to the family 1

According to Hort text is a successor of the Byzantine text-type.

In Matthew 27:16 we find the famous text version " Ιησουν τον Βαραββαν ". This variant is included in the Codex Koridethi, Minuscule 700, and other members of the family of texts f1.