Editing Minuscule 201

'''Minuscule 201''' (in the [[Biblical manuscript#Gregory-Aland|Gregory-Aland]] numbering), δ 403 ([[Biblical manuscript#Von Soden|Soden]]), is a [[Greek language|Greek]] [[Lower case|minuscule]] [[manuscript]] of the [[New Testament]], on parchment. [[Paleography|Paleographically]] it had been assigned to the 11th century.<sup>[1]</sup> 

== Description ==

The codex contains entire text of the [[New Testament]] on 493 parchment leaves (size 34.7 cm by 27.1 cm).<sup>[1]</sup> Pauline epistles followed after Catholic epistles. Written in two columns per page, in 22 lines per page, in light-brown or dark-brown ink, capital letters in gold.<sup>[2]</sup> 

It contains [[Synaxarion|synaxaria]], tables of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections, some [[Eusebian Canons]], prolegomena, αναγνωσεις, subscriptions, [[Stichometry|στιχοι]], and [[Euthalius|Euthalian]] apparatus to Catholic and Pauline epistles.<sup>[2]</sup><sup>[3]</sup>

== Text ==

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the [[Byzantine text-type]]. [[Kurt Aland|Aland]] placed it in [[Categories of New Testament manuscripts#Category V|Category V]].<sup>[4]</sup> It belongs to the textual family [[Family Kr|K<sup>r</sup>]].<sup>[5]</sup> Its text is very close to the codex [[Minuscule 480|480]].

== History ==

According to the [[Colophon (publishing)|colophon]] from Epistle to Hebrews the manuscript was written by scribe named Methodius (in 6866). Formerly the manuscript belonged to the monastery S. Marco in Florence. Later it belonged to [[Samuel Butler]] Bishop of [[Lichfield]].<sup>[2]</sup> 

[[Giovanni Lami]] was the first who described the manuscript. It was examined by [[Johann Jakob Wettstein|Wettstein]], [[Andrew Birch|Birch]], [[Johann Jakob Griesbach|Griesbach]], Bloomfield, [[Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener|Scrivener]], and Gregory (1883). Griesbach placed it twice on his list of manuscripts of NT, as 107 and 201.<sup>[2]</sup> 

It is currently housed at the [[British Library]] (Add. 11837. 1357), at [[London]].<sup>[1]</sup>

== See also ==
* [[List of New Testament minuscules]]
* [[Biblical manuscript]]
* [[Textual criticism]]

== References ==

*   1. [[Kurt Aland|K. Aland]], M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 59.
*   2. [[Caspar René Gregory|C. R. Gregory]], "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 166.
*   3. [[Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener|F. H. A. Scrivener]], A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament (London 1894), vol. 1, p. 219.
*   4. [[Kurt Aland]], and Barbara Aland, "The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism", transl. Erroll F. Rhodes,[[William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company]], Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995, p. 138.
*   5. F. Wisse, The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1982, p. 92.

== Further reading ==

* Giovanni Lami, [http://books.google.pl/books?id=EFoUAAAAQAAJ&dq=&printsec=frontcover&source#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''De eruditione apostolorum''], Florence 1738, p. 218-221.

== External links ==

* [http://www.skypoint.com/members/waltzmn/Manuscripts1-500.html#m201 Minuscule 201] at the ''Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism'' 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuscule_201 Wikipedia Article on Minuscule 201]
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