Minuscule 240 Explained

Minuscule 240 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Z^ε21 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 12th century.^[2]

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 411 parchment leaves (size), with some lacunae (Mark 8:12-34; 14:17-54; Luke 15:32-16:8).^[2] The text is written in one column per page, 33-39 lines per page.^[2]

It contains tables of Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel. The biblical text is surrounded by a commentary of Euthymius Zigabenus.^[3] The biblical text written in red, the text of a commentary in black ink.^[4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[5] It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.^[6]

History

Formerly the manuscript was held in the monastery Philotheus at Athos peninsula, then in the Dionysius monastery. It was brought from the Athos to Moscow, by the monk Arsenius, on the suggestion of the Patriarch Nikon, in the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov (1645-1676).^[3] The manuscript was collated by C. F. Matthaei.

The manuscript is currently housed at the State Historical Museum (V. 87, S. 48) at Moscow.^[2]

See also

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

Further reading

• C. F. Matthaei, Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine (Riga, 1782). (as i)
• 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. 270–272.

Notes and References

1. Book: Gregory, Caspar René. Caspar René Gregory. Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. 1908. J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. Leipzig. 56.
2. 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. Book: Scrivener , Frederick Henry Ambrose . Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener . Edward Miller . . . 1894 . London . 4 . 223 . 1 .
4. Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . J.C. Hinrichs . 1900 . Leipzig . 1 . 171 .
5. Book: Aland , Kurt . Kurt Aland . Aland . Barbara . Barbara Aland . Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) . The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism . . 1995 . Grand Rapids . 138 . limited . 978-0-8028-4098-1.
6. Book: Wisse , Frederik . The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke . . 1982 . Grand Rapids . 57 . 0-8028-1918-4 . registration .