Minuscule 241 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 507 (Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.[2] Formerly it was labelled by 241e, 104a, 120p, and 47r.
The codex contains entire the text of the New Testament, on 353 parchment leaves (size).[2] The text is written in one column per page, 31 lines per page.[2] [3] The order of books is Gospels, Acts, Pauline epistles, Catholic epistles, and Book of Revelation. It is beautifully written.
The text is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, with the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages.
It contains Prolegomena, tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each biblical book, Synaxarion, and Menologion.[4]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type.[5] The text contains rare readings.[6] Kurt Aland did not place it in any Category.[7] It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.[8]
In 1 John 5:6 it has textual variant δι υδατος και πνευματος together with the manuscripts 43, 463, 945, 1241, 1831, 1877, 1891.[9] [10]
The manuscript was bought by Alexius for 52 aspri in 1453 in Constantinople. Pachonius, a monk sent it in 1616, along with other books to the monastery Dochiarii at Mount Athos.[4] 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.[11] In 1788 it was bought for the library in Dresden.[4] It was examined by Matthaei, Tregelles, Gebhardt, and Gregory.[4] Herman C. Hoskier collated its text (only for Apocalypse).
The manuscript came to Dresden at the end of the 18th century and was housed at the Sächsische Landesbibliothek (A 172).