Minuscule 381

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Minuscule 381
Name	Palatino-Vaticanus 20
Text	Gospel of Luke
Date	14th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Vatican Library
Size	31.4 cm by 25 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V

Minuscule 381 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Α⁴⁰⁰ and Ν^λ47 (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 Luke on 226 paper leaves (31.4 cm by 25 cm) with only one lacuna (Luke 1:1-5). It is written in one column per page, in 33 lines per page.^[2] The biblical text is surrounded by a catena.^[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

Scrivener and Gregory dated it to the 14th century.

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794–1852).^[6] C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.^[3]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Pal. gr. 20) in Rome.^[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. 61. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n71/mode/2up. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} Aland, K.; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 69. ISBN 3110119862. 
3. ^ ^{a b} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 184. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n197/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. 139. 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. 59. 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. 225. 

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 184. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n197/mode/2up. 

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