Minuscule 225
Minuscule 225, ε 1210, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on parchment. A colophon dates it to the year 1192. It was adapted for liturgical use.
Description
The manuscript is a codex containing the complete text of the four Gospels, on 171 parchment leaves. The text is written in one column per page, 29 lines per page.It contains pictures, lectionary markings at the margin, lessons, the synaxaria, and Menologion.
The Pericope Adulterae is placed after John 7:36.
Text
The Greek text of this codex is considered a representative of the Byzantine text-type. According to textual critic Hermann von Soden it represents the Antiocheian commentated text. Biblical scholar Kurt Aland did not place it in any Category of his New Testament manuscript classification system.According to the Claremont Profile Method it has mixed Byzantine text in Luke 1. In Luke 10 and Luke 20 it belongs to the textual group 1167.
In Matthew 6:13 it has an unusual ending of the Lord's Prayer:
ὅτι σοῦ ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία καὶ ἡ δύναμις καὶ ἡ δόξα, τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας. ἀμήν
There are only two other known manuscripts with this same ending: Minuscule 157 and 418.
In John 8:10 it reads Ιησους ειδεν αυτην και along with Codex Nanianus, Codex Tischendorfianus III, ƒ, 700, 1077, 1443, Lectionary 185, and some Ethiopic manuscripts. The Majority of manuscripts read: Ιησους και μηδενα θεασαμενος πλην της γυναικος or just Ιησους.
History
The manuscript was examined and described by Herman Treschow, a priest and professor of Theology at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. The biblical scholar Francis Karl Alter made a full collation of the manuscript against the Textus Receptus. Alter used it in his edition of the Greek text of the New Testament. Biblical scholar C. R. Gregory saw it in 1887.It was formerly held at the Imperial Library in Vienna. It is currently housed at the Biblioteca Nazionale, at Naples.