Minuscule 242 Explained

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

The codex contains entire of the New Testament with Book of Psalms, on 409 parchment leaves – 510 with Psalms – (size).^[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]

It contains Prolegomena, a division according to the Ammonian Sections, the Eusebian Canon tables before each Gospel, Synaxarion, Menologion, the Euthalian Apparatus and pictures.^[4]

Text

In Acts 1:10.11 the manuscript omits phrase εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν together with the manuscripts: Codex Bezae, 33^c, 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

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

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

Further reading

• 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

• • W.J. Elliott, An Examination of von Soden's I^bl Group of Manuscript s (Acts & Catholic Epistles only), Birmingham University 1974, p. 12-13.

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 . 224 . 1 .
4. Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . J.C. Hinrichs . 1900 . Leipzig . 1 . 171 .
5. [Bruce M. Metzger]
6. 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 . 132, 138 . limited . 978-0-8028-4098-1.
7. 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 .
8. Book: Scrivener , Frederick Henry Ambrose . Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener . Edward Miller . . . 1894 . London . 4 . 223 . 1 .
9. W.J. Elliott, An Examination of von Soden's I^bl Group of Manuscript s (Acts & Catholic Epistles only), p. 12-13.