Minuscule 381

{{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''381''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = Palatino-Vaticanus 20 | sign = | text = Gospel of Luke | script = Greek | date = 14th century | found = | now at = Vatican Library | cite = | size = {{×|31.4|25}} | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = }}

'''Minuscule 381''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Α<sup>400</sup> and Ν<sup>λ47</sup> (Soden),<ref name = Gregory1908>{{cite book|last=Gregory|first=Caspar René|author-link=Caspar René Gregory|title=Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament|url=https://archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n71/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=61}}</ref> is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century.<ref name = Aland>{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = K. | author-link = Kurt Aland |author2=M. Welte |author3=B. Köster |author4=K. Junack | title = Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments | publisher = Walter de Gruyter | year = 1994 | location = Berlin, New York | page = 69 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}</ref>

== Description ==

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Luke on 226 paper leaves ({{×|31.4|25|cm}}) with only one lacuna (Luke 1:1-5). It is written in one column per page, in 33 lines per page.<ref name = Aland/> The biblical text is surrounded by a catena.<ref name = Gregory>{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 184 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n197/mode/2up }}</ref>

== Text ==

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland | last2 = Aland | first2 = Barbara | author-link2 = Barbara Aland | others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) | title = The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1995 | location = Grand Rapids | page = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n161 139] | url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref> It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.<ref name = Wisse>{{Cite book | last = Wisse | first = Frederik | title = The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1982 | location = Grand Rapids | page = [https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/59 59] | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/59 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration }}</ref>

== History ==

Scrivener and Gregory dated it to the 14th century.

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794–1852).<ref>{{Cite book | last = Scrivener | first = Frederick Henry Ambrose | author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |author2=Edward Miller | title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1894 | location = London | edition = 4 | volume = 1 | page = 225 }}</ref> C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.<ref name = Gregory/>

The manuscript is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Pal. gr. 20) in Rome.<ref name = Aland/>

== References ==

== Further reading ==

* {{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 184 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n197/mode/2up }}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0381}} Category:Greek New Testament minuscules Category:14th-century biblical manuscripts Category:Manuscripts in the Vatican Library