Minuscule 841 (Gregory-Aland)

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Minuscule 841
Text	Gospels †
Date	15th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Biblioteca Estense
Size	29.7 cm by 22.5 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	—

Minuscule 841 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θ^ε50 (von Soden),^[1][2] is a 15th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on paper. The manuscript is lacunose.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Mark, Gospel of Luke, and Gospel of John on 244 paper leaves (size 29.7 cm by 22.5 cm).^[3][4] The text is written in one column per page, 31-34 lines per page.^[3][5] It contains a commentary of Nicetas (abbreviated).^[4] The manuscript is ornamented.^[1]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex placed in Category V.^[6] According to the Claremont Profile Method it has mixed text in Luke 1. In Luke 10 and Luke 20 it has a mixture of the Byzantine text-families.^[7]

History

C. R. Gregory dated the manuscript to the 15th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 15th century.^[5]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory (841^e). Gregory saw it in 1886, Gregory did not examine its text ("ich weiss nicht, ob der Text ganz ist").^[4]

Currently the manuscript is housed at the Biblioteca Estense (G. 178, a.V.7.24 (II F 13)), in Modena.^[3][5]

See also

Bible portal

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism
• Minuscule 842 (Gregory-Aland)

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Soden, von, Hermann (1902). Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte. 1. Berlin: Verlag von Alexander Duncker. p. 269. 
2. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 76. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n87/mode/2up. 
3. ^ ^{a b c} Aland, Kurt; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 96. ISBN 3110119862. 
4. ^ ^{a b c} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 226. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n239/mode/2up. 
5. ^ ^{a b c} "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php. Retrieved 24 February 2011. 
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. p. 139. 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. 67. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 226. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n239/mode/2up. 

External links

• "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php. Retrieved 1 March 2011.