Minuscule 243

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Minuscule 243
Text	Matthew, Luke
Date	14th century
Script	Greek
Now at	State Historical Museum
Size	26.4 cm by 17 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V

Minuscule 243 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θ^ε304 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century.^[2]

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Matthew and Gospel of Luke on 224 paper leaves (size 26.4 cm by 17 cm).^[2] The text is written in one column per page, 31 lines per page.^[2] The evangelical text is surrounded by a commentary of Theophylact.^[3]

At the end of the manuscript it has extracts from Gregory of Nyssa.^[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[4] It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.^[5]

History

Formerly the manuscript was held in the Iberian monastery 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).^[6] The manuscript was collated by C. F. Matthaei.

The manuscript is currently housed at the State Historical Museum (V. 92, S. 388) at Moscow.^[2]

See also

• 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. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 171. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n183/mode/2up. 
4. ^ 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. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
5. ^ 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. 
6. ^ 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. Matthaei, Lectiones Mosquenses (Leipzig 1779).
• C. F. Matthei, Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine, (Riga, 1782-1788). (as m)
• 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. 278-280.

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