Minuscule 361 ε 316 (Soden), is a Greek

Greek language

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

 minuscule manuscript

Manuscript

A manuscript or handwrite is written information that has been manually created by someone or some people, such as a hand-written letter, as opposed to being printed or reproduced some other way...

 of the New Testament

New Testament

The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....

, on parchment. Paleographically

Palaeography

Palaeography, also spelt paleography is the study of ancient writing. Included in the discipline is the practice of deciphering, reading, and dating historical manuscripts, and the cultural context of writing, including the methods with which writing and books were produced, and the history of...

 it has been assigned to the 13th century.
It was adapted for liturgical use.
It is known as Codex de Rossi 1.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospel

Gospel

A gospel is an account, often written, that describes the life of Jesus of Nazareth. In a more general sense the term "gospel" may refer to the good news message of the New Testament. It is primarily used in reference to the four canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John...

s on 186 parchment leaves with lacunae

Lacuna (manuscripts)

A lacunaPlural lacunae. From Latin lacūna , diminutive form of lacus . is a gap in a manuscript, inscription, text, painting, or a musical work...

 (Luke 8:14-11:20). It is written in one column per page, in 20 lines per page.

It contains the tables of the (tables of contents) before each Gospel (with a harmony), lectionary equipment at the margin (for liturgical use), (lessons), Synaxarion, Menologion, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, and numbers of στιχοι

Stichometry

Stichometry is a term applied to the measurement of ancient texts by στίχοι or verses of a fixed standard length.It was the custom of the Greeks and Romans to estimate the length of their literary works by measured lines...

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Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type

Byzantine text-type

The Byzantine text-type is one of several text-types used in textual criticism to describe the textual character of Greek New Testament manuscripts. It is the form found in the largest number of surviving manuscripts, though not in the oldest...

. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K^r

Family Kr

Family Kr is a large group of the New Testament manuscripts. It belongs to the Byzantine text-type as one of the textual families of this group. It has no uncials, no early minuscules, it has only hundreds of minuscules.- Description :...

. Aland

Kurt Aland

Kurt Aland was a German Theologian and Professor of New Testament Research and Church History. He founded the Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung in Münster and served as its first director for many years...

 placed it in Category V.
It belongs to the textual family K^r

Family Kr

Family Kr is a large group of the New Testament manuscripts. It belongs to the Byzantine text-type as one of the textual families of this group. It has no uncials, no early minuscules, it has only hundreds of minuscules.- Description :...

 in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 the manuscript is defective.

History

The manuscript once belonged to J. B. de Rossi. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz

Johannes Martin Augustinus Scholz

Johann Martin Augustin Scholz , a pupil of Johann Leonhard Hug , professor from University of Bonn, travelled extensively throughout Europe and the Near East in order to find out manuscripts of New Testament. He added to the list of Greek manuscripts of the New Testament 616 new cursive manuscripts...

 (1794–1852).
It was fully described (as also minuscule 360

Minuscule 360

Minuscule 360 , ε 1009 , is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.It was known as Codex de Rossi 1.It has marginalia....

 by De Rossi in his Catalogue. It was examined by Burgon. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.

The manuscript is currently housed at the Biblioteca Palatina

Biblioteca Palatina

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 (Ms. Parm. 1821) in Parma

Parma

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See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
  Biblical manuscript
  A biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. The word Bible comes from the Greek biblia ; manuscript comes from Latin manu and scriptum...
  
  
• Textual criticism
  Textual criticism
  Textual criticism is a branch of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in the texts of manuscripts...