Minuscule 242

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Minuscule 242
Text	New Testament, Psalms
Date	12th century
Script	Greek
Now at	State Historical Museum
Size	17 cm by 12.5 cm
Category	none

Minuscule 242 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 206 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.^[2]

Description

The codex contains entire of the New Testament with Book of Psalms, on 409 parchment leaves – 510 with Psalms – (size 17 cm by 12.5 cm).^[2] The text is written in one column per page, 24 lines per page.^[2] The order of books: Gospels, Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles, Apocalypse, and Psalms.^[3][4]

It contains Prolegomena, a division according to the Ammonian Sections, the Eusebian Canon tables before each Gospel, Synaxarion, Menologion, the Euthalian Apparatus and pictures.^[3]

Text

In Acts 1:10.11 the manuscript omits phrase εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν together with the manuscripts: Codex Bezae, 33^c, 326*.^[5]

Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.^[6] It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.^[7]

History

Formerly the manuscript was held at Athos peninsula. 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.^[8]

The manuscript is currently housed at the State Historical Museum (V. 25, S. 407) at Moscow.^[2]

See also

Bible portal

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

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} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 171. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n183/mode/2up. 
4. ^ 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. 224. 
5. ^ Bruce M. Metzger, "A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament: A Companion Volume to the United Bible Societies' Greek New Testament", 1994, United Bible Societies, London & New York, p. 245.
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. ^ 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 l)
• Herman C. Hoskier, Concernig the Text of the Apocalypse (London, 1929), vol. 1, pp. 138-141.
• Kurt Treu, Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan, T & U 90 (Berlin, 1966), pp. 258-260.

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