Minuscule 201

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Minuscule 201 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 403 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 11th century.^[1]

Description

The codex contains entire text of the New Testament on 493 parchment leaves (size 34.7 cm by 27.1 cm).^[1] 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.^[2]

It contains synaxaria, tables of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections, some Eusebian Canons, prolegomena, αναγνωσεις, subscriptions, στιχοι, and Euthalian apparatus to Catholic and Pauline epistles.^[2][3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[4] It belongs to the textual family K^r.^[5] Its text is very close to the codex 480.

History

According to the 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.^[2]

Giovanni Lami was the first who described the manuscript. It was examined by Wettstein, Birch, Griesbach, Bloomfield, Scrivener, and Gregory (1883). Griesbach placed it twice on his list of manuscripts of NT, as 107 and 201.^[2]

It is currently housed at the British Library (Add. 11837. 1357), at London.^[1]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

• 1. 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. C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 166.
• 3. 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, De eruditione apostolorum, Florence 1738, p. 218-221.

External links

• Minuscule 201 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism
• Wikipedia Article on Minuscule 201