Minuscule 609 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε ¹⁶¹ (von Soden),^[1] is a Greek–Arabic diglot minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1043. The manuscript is lacunose.^[2]

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Luke on 317 parchment leaves (size 17.5 cm by 13.6 cm), with lacunae. The leaves 67-73 were written by a later hand. The writing is in two columns per page, 17-18 lines per page.^[2] It contains the Ammonian Sections but without references to the Eusebian Canons.^[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K^x.^[4] Aland did not place it in any Category.^[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it creates the textual group M609 with Codex Campianus.^[4] Some of its peculiar readings are as follows (in all of these, the Arabic column agrees with the Byzantine Text unless noted otherwise):

• It lacks ἐντεῦθεν in Luke 4:9, along with E G H 28.
• It lacks καὶ λέγοντα in Luke 4:41, along with 019 and 1241.
• It adds ώστε μη δυναςαι αναγαγείν αυτό to the end of Luke 5:6.
• It reads καὶ ἄλλων in Luke 5:29 instead of καὶ ἁμαρτωλῶν, the reading in the Arabic text and N W X 213 262 443 517 954 1071 1424 1675.
• It omits καὶ εἰσὶν πρῶτοι οἳ ἔσονται ἔσχατοι from the end of Luke 13:30.
• It reads ἄριστον in Luke 14:15 instead of ἄρτον, the reading in the Arabic text and p⁷⁵ א¹ A^c B D K* L N P Δ Θ Ψ f¹ 579 892 1241 2542.

History

The manuscript was written by Euphemius, a clergyman. Formerly it was held in Church of the Holy Sepulchre (No. 6) in Jerusalem.^[3] It was slightly examined by Martin (p. 99), Henri Omont, and Kurt Treu. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.^[3]

The manuscript currently is housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Suppl. Gr. 911, 315 fol.), at Paris.^[2]

Two leaves of the same codex with the text of Luke 8:8-14 were designated by number 2152 on the list Gregory-Aland and it is housed at the National Library of Russia (Gr. 290, 2 fol.) in Saint Petersburg.^[2]