Minuscule 242
| New Testament manuscript | |
| 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[edit]
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[edit]
In Acts 1:10.11 the manuscript omits phrase εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν together with the manuscripts: Codex Bezae, 33c, 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[edit]
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] It was examined by Kurt Treu in 1958.[9]
The manuscript is currently housed at the State Historical Museum (V. 25, S. 407) at Moscow.[2]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 56.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 171.
- ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 224.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. pp. 132, 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 223.
- ^ W.J. Elliott, An Examination of von Soden's Ibl Group of Manuscript s (Acts & Catholic Epistles only), p. 12-13.
Further reading[edit]
- 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.
External links[edit]
- Minuscule 242. Entry in the Manuscript Database of the Göttinger Septuaginta by Georgi Parpulov, published 16 September 2022
- W.J. Elliott, An Examination of von Soden's Ibl Group of Manuscript s (Acts & Catholic Epistles only), Birmingham University 1974, p. 12-13.