Minuscule 201 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 403 ( Soden), is a

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of the

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, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", ''

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'', Berlin, New York 1994, p. 59. It has

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Description

The codex contains entire text of the

on 493 parchment leaves (size ). 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 (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their (''titles of chapters'') at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the Ammonian Sections, with some references to the

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. It contains

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, tables of the (''tables of contents'') before each book, prolegomena (to James and some Pauline epistles), (''lessons''), subscriptions at the end of each book, numbers of , and

Euthalian Apparatus The Euthalian Apparatus is a collection of additional editorial material, such as divisions of text, lists, and summaries, to the New Testament's Book of Acts, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles. This additional material appears at the beginni ...

to the Catholic and Pauline epistles. According to colophons, Gospel of Matthew was written in 8 years after

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, Mark – 10 years, Luke 15 years, and John 32 years.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the

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Hermann von Soden Baron Hermann von Soden (16 August 1852 – 15 January 1914) was a German Biblical scholar, minister, professor of divinity, and textual theorist. Life Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 16, 1852, Soden was educated at the University of Tübinge ...

classified it to the textual family K^r. Aland placed it in Category V. Its text is very close to the codex

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. According to the

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it represents textual family K^r 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 (in 6866):

ετελειωθη μηνι οικτοβφιω ζ ινδικτιωνη ια ετους ςωξς. Μεθοδιε χειρ τω θυτορακενδυτουGiovanni Lami, ''De eruditione apostolorum'', Florence 1738, p. 219

Formerly the manuscript belonged to the monastery S. Marco in Florence. Later it belonged to Samuel Butler Bishop of

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was the first who described the manuscript. It was examined by

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, Griesbach, Bloomfield,

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, and

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(1883). Griesbach placed it twice on his list of manuscripts of NT, as 107 and 201. It is currently housed at the

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(Add MS 11837) in

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at the ''Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism''
Add MS 11837
at the British Library {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0201 Greek New Testament minuscules 11th-century biblical manuscripts British Library additional manuscripts

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