Minuscule 201


Minuscule 201, δ 403, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains entire text of the New Testament on 493 parchment leaves. The Pauline epistles are followed after the Catholic epistles. The text is written in two columns per page, in 22 lines per page, in light-brown or dark-brown ink, the initial letters in gold.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the Ammonian Sections, with some references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains synaxaria, tables of the κεφαλαια before each book, prolegomena, αναγνωσεις, subscriptions at the end of each book, numbers of Stichometry, and Euthalian Apparatus to the Catholic and Pauline epistles.
According to colophons, Gospel of Matthew was written in 8 years after Ascension, Mark – 10 years, Luke 15 years, and John 32 years.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kr. Aland placed it in Category V. Its text is very close to the codex 480.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kr in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20, as its perfect member.

History

According to the colophon from Epistle to Hebrews the manuscript was written by scribe named Methodius :

ετελειωθη μηνι οικτοβφιω ζ ινδικτιωνη ια ετους ςωξς. Μεθοδιε χειρ τω θυτορακενδυτου

Formerly the manuscript belonged to the monastery S. Marco in Florence. Later it belonged to Samuel Butler Bishop of Lichfield.
Giovanni Lami was the first who described the manuscript. It was examined by Wettstein, Birch, Griesbach, Bloomfield, Scrivener, and C. R. Gregory. Griesbach placed it twice on his list of manuscripts of NT, as 107 and 201.
It is currently housed at the British Library in London.