Minuscule 127
Minuscule 127 is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on parchment. It is designated by the siglum 127 in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts, and A in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts. Using the study of comparative writing styles, it has been assigned to the 11th century. The manuscript has complex contents; the marginal notes are incomplete.
Description
The manuscript is a codex, containing the text of the four Gospels on 378 thick parchment leaves. The text is written in one column per page, 16 lines per page, in brown ink, with the large initials in red ink. According to biblical scholar Frederick H. A. Scrivener, the text is "neatly written", with a few corrections added by a later hand. There is space and lines left blank for a commentary, but it was seldom written.The text is divided according to the chapters, whose numbers are given in the margin, and their titles written at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, but there is no references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains the Epistle to Carpian, Eusebian Canon tables at the beginning, prolegomena, tables of contents before each Gospel, and lectionary markings for liturgical readings in the margin. Scrivener describes it as an "important copy".
Text
The Greek text of the codex is considered 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, with the Byzantine comprising the vast majority of manuscripts. Biblical scholar Kurt Aland placed it in Category V of his New Testament manuscript classification system. Category V manuscripts are described as having "a purely or predominantly Byzantine text."According to the Claremont Profile Method, it creates textual cluster 127. In chapters 1, 10, and 20 of the Gospel of Luke, its text is close to minuscule 132.
; Some notable readings