Minuscule 110
Minuscule 110, α 204, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment. Using the study of comparative writing styles, it has been assigned to the 12th century. It has complex contents with full marginal notations.
It was formerly labelled as 28, 34, or 8.
Description
The manuscript is a codex containing the near complete text of Acts, the Catholic epistles, the Pauline epistles, and the Book of Revelation on 292 parchment leaves. It has some gaps, namely Acts 1:1-20, and Revelation 6:14-8:1, and 22:19-21.The text is written in one column per page, with 23 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the chapters, whose numbers are given in the margin, with their titles written at the top of the pages.
It contains an introduction to the Pauline Epistles, lectionary markings in the margin, subscriptions at the end of each book, and the numbers of lines. It has a commentary of Theophylact. The codex has survived in poor condition, and its text is often illegible.
Text
The text of the codex is considered to be a representative of the Byzantine text-type. The text-types are groups of different New Testament manuscripts which share specific or generally related readings, which then differ from each other group, and thus the conflicting readings can separate out the groups. These are then used to determine the original text as published; there are three main groups with names: Alexandrian, Western, and Byzantine. Biblical scholar Kurt Aland placed it in Category V of his New Testament manuscript classification system. Category V manuscripts are those "with a purely or predominantly Byzantine text."History
The manuscript was brought by clergyman and scientist John Covel from Mount Sinai to England. Covel marked it as codex 5, but afterwards gave it the name of the Sinai manuscript.; Former 110
In his numeration, textual critic Johann Jakob Wettstein gave the siglum 110 to Codex Ravianus, a transcription from the Complutensian Polyglot so slavish that it copies even typographical errors from that exemplar. It also includes some variant readings inserted from Stephanus's 1550 edition. It once belonged to Christian Rave, a professor in Uppsala.
In 1908, Gregory removed Codex Ravianus from the list of Greek New Testament manuscripts. Codex Ravianus is now no longer listed, as it is only a facsimile of the Complutensis Polyglot. It is housed in the Berlin State Library.
; Current History
Minuscule 110 was examined by textual critic John Mill, and the text of Acts and Paul was examined by textual critic Samuel Thomas Bloomfield. Biblical scholar Frederick H. A. Scrivener collated the text of Revelation. Biblical scholar Caspar René Gregory saw the manuscript in 1883.
It was formerly labelled as 28, 34, or 8. Gregory assigned it the number 110 in his Liste, which is still used today.
The manuscript is dated by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research to the 12th century.
It is currently housed at the British Library, in London, England.