Minuscule 131
| New Testament manuscript | |
| Text | New Testament (except Revelation) |
|---|---|
| Date | 15th-century |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | Vatican Library |
| Size | 23.5 cm by 17.5 cm |
| Type | Caesarean text-type |
| Category | III |
| Note | remarkable variations, member of f1 |
Minuscule 131 (in the
Description
The codex contains the text of the New Testament except the Book of Revelation on 233 parchment leaves (size 23.5 cm by 17.5 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 37 lines per page.[2]
The text of the Gospels is divided according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 234 sections – the last numbered section in 16:9), but there is no references to the Eusebian Canons.[3]
The manuscript contains
It contains many errors of iotacism and many remarkable variations.[4]
The order of books is usual for Greek manuscripts: Gospels, Acts, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles.[3] The Epistle to the Hebrews stands before 1 Timothy.[4]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Caesarean text-type in the Gospels. It belongs to the textual family f1. This was confirmed by the Claremont Profile Method.[5]
Kurt Aland placed it in Category III.[6]
The manuscript contains many corrections made by prima manu.[4]
In 1 Corinthians 2:4 it has singular reading πειθοις ανθρωπινης σοφιας και λογοις for πειθοις σοφιας λογοις (plausible words of wisdom).[7]
John 5:1 it reads η σκηνοπηγια for εορτη των Ιουδαιων; the reading is not supported by any known Greek manuscript, or version.[8]
History
Birch dated the manuscript to the 11th-century,
The manuscript was given to
It is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Vat. gr. 360), at Rome.[2]
See also
- List of New Testament minuscules
- Family 1
- Biblical manuscript
- Textual criticism
References
- ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 53.
- ^ Walter de Gruyter. p. 54.
- ^ a b c d e Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 156.
- ^ a b c d e 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. 212.
- ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
- ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ UBS3, p. 581.
- ^ Eberhard Nestle, Erwin Nestle, Barbara Aland and Kurt Aland (eds), Novum Testamentum Graece, 26th edition, (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1991), p. 259 [further NA26]
Further reading
- K. Lake, Codex 1 of the Gospels and its Allies, Texts and Studies VII 3 (Cambridge, 1902).