Minuscule 241

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Minuscule 241
Name	Codex Dresdensis
Text	New Testament
Date	11th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Saxon State Library
Size	22.5 cm by 17 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	none
Hand	beautifully written

Minuscule 241 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 507 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.^[2] Formerly it was labelled by 241^e, 104^a, 120^p, and 47^r.^[3]

Description

The codex contains entire the text of the New Testament, on 353 parchment leaves (size 22.5 cm by 17 cm).^[2] The text is written in one column per page, 31 lines per page.^[2] The order of books: Gospels, Acts, Pauline epistles, Catholic epistles, and Book of Revelation.^[4] It is beautifully written.^[3]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, with the τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages.^[4]

It contains Prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each biblical book, Synaxarion, and Menologion.^[4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type.^[5] The text contains a rare readings.^[3] Kurt Aland did not place it in any Category.^[6] It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.^[7]

In 1 John 5:6 it has textual variant δι υδατος και πνευματος together with the manuscripts 43, 463, 945, 1241, 1831, 1877, 1891.^{[8][n 1]}

History

The manuscript was bought by Alexius for 52 aspri in 1453 in Constantinople. Pachonius, a monk sent it in 1616, along with other books to the monastery Dochiarii at Mount Athos.^[4] It was brought to Moscow, by the monk Arsenius, on the suggestion of the Patriarch Nikon, in the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov (1645-1676). The manuscript was collated by C. F. Matthaei.^[9] In 1788 it was bought for the library in Dresden.^[4] It was examined by Matthaei, Tregelles, Gebhardt, and Gregory.^[4] Herman C. Hoskier collated its text (only for Apocalypse).

The manuscript came to Dresden at the end of the 18th century and was housed at the Sächsische Landesbibliothek (A 172).^[2]

See also

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

Notes

1. ^ For the other textual variants of this verse see: Textual variants in the First Epistle of John.

References

1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 56. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n67/mode/2up. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d} K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 61.
3. ^ ^{a b c} Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 223–224. 
4. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 171. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n183/mode/2up. 
5. ^ David Alan Black, New Testament Textual Criticism, Baker Books, 2006, p. 64.
6. ^ Aland, Kurt; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. pp. 132, 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
7. ^ Wisse, Frederik (1982). The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 57. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 
8. ^ UBS3, p. 823.
9. ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 223. 

Further reading

• C. F. Matthei, Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine (Riga, 1782-1788). (as k)
• Herman C. Hoskier, Concernig the Text of the Apocalypse (London, 1929), vol. 1, pp. 133-137.

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