{{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''601''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Acts of the Apostles, Pauline epistles † | script = Greek | date = 13th century | found = | now at = Bibliothèque nationale de France | cite = | size = {{×|18.5|12.9}} | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = marginalia }}
'''Minuscule 601''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 360 (von 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/n79/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=69}}</ref> is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.<ref name = Aland>K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", ''Walter de Gruyter'', Berlin, New York 1994, p. 82.</ref> The manuscript is lacunose. Formerly it was labelled by 121<sup>a</sup> and 142<sup>p</sup>.<ref name = Scrivener>{{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, vol. 1 | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1894 | location = London | edition = 4 | page = 293 }}</ref>
== Description ==
The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles on 257 paper leaves (size {{×|18.5|12.9}}),<ref name = Aland/> with lacunae (Titus, Philemon, Hebrews 1:1-5:2). Texts of Acts 1:1-5:20; 10:23-35; 13:4-16; He 8:13-10:7 were added by a later hand.<ref name = Gregory/>
The text is written in one column per page, 23-24 lines per page.<ref name = Aland/> It contains Prolegomena, lists of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''chapters'') before each of the Gospels, the {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (''titles'') at the top of the pages, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), subscriptions at the end of each of the Gospels, Synaxarion, Menologion, and {{lang|grc|στιχοι}}.<ref name = Gregory>{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 275 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n287/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 | last1 = Aland | first1 = 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>
== History ==
The manuscript belonged to Jacques Auguste de Thou († 1617), his son François Auguste de Thou († 1642), then to Colbert.<ref name = Gregory/>
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Johann Martin Augustin Scholz. It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.<ref>Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, ''Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au N. T., conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris'' (Paris 1883), p. 115</ref> Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.<ref name = Gregory/>
The manuscript currently is housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 104), at Paris.<ref name = Aland/>
== See also ==
* List of New Testament minuscules * Biblical manuscript * Textual criticism
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
== Further reading ==
* {{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 275 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n287/mode/2up }}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0601}} Category:Greek New Testament minuscules Category:13th-century biblical manuscripts Category:Bibliothèque nationale de France collections