TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 26 (2021): 47–76 47 Te Text and Margin of Gregory- Aland 274* Joey McCollum Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Bibliothèque nationale de France Suppl. Gr. 79, also known as Gregory-Aland (GA) 274, is a tenth-century minuscule manuscript of the gospels. Perhaps due to the common character of its main text, its only feature that has received any detailed discussion in scholarly literature is the inclusion of the rare intermediate ending of Mark in its margin. What other scholars have missed is that many of the nearly one hundred other notes that also appear in the margin preserve uncommon and early variations on the text. In this study, I attempt to close the information gap by providing the frst comprehensive sur- vey of the marginal readings of this manuscript. I frst identify readings in the main text of GA 274 that may have been derived from sources other than its presumed Byzantine exemplar. I then examine all of the marginal readings of GA 274, distinguishing between those that represent corrections to common errors, those that are related to lectionary usage, and those that indicate knowledge of textual variants. On the basis of an extensive collation of 140 Greek manuscript witnesses, I evaluate the textual afnity of the read- ings in the last category and fnd that these readings agree frequently with the decid- edly non-Byzantine manuscripts GA 33 and 1342. A commentary ofering details of the collation and justifcations for my classifcations of the marginal notes is included as an appendix. Questions about the hands responsible for the marginal notes, the critical sigla used in the margin and their functions, and the role of block mixture in the production of the manuscript all receive attention. Te results of this examination show that despite this manuscript’s ordinary text, the extraordinary content preserved in its margin commends it for consideration in future text-critical work on the New Testament. 1. Te Manuscript General Description Bibliothèque nationale de France Suppl. Gr. 79, hereafer denoted by its Gregory-Aland identi- fer GA 274, is a gospels manuscript written in minuscule script, dated to the tenth century. 1 Its pages are 231 mm in height and 172 mm in width, with twenty-four to twenty-six lines of text * I extend my thanks to Brent Niedergall for taking the time to look through the frst draf of this paper and ofer constructive feedback; to Michael W. Holmes for sharing valuable comments on a subsequent draf that helped me clarify various points; to Georgi Parpulov for bringing addition- al sources to my attention and sharing valuable insights on historical and paleographical matters; to Charles E. Hill for providing helpful information on a text-critical siglum; and to Tommy Wasserman for checking my translations of German quotes, ofering constructive recommen- dations on the organization of the paper, and suggesting areas of revision and development that substantially strengthened the argumentation. 1 Kurt Aland et al., Kurzgefaßte Liste der griechischen Handschrifen des Neuen Testaments, ANT 1 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1994), 63.