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Minuscule 931

New Testament manuscript

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2022
Entity authorityQ18207070 ↗
Source-derived summary

Minuscule 931 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1361 (von Soden), is a 13th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment. It has marginalia and was prepared for liturgical use. The manuscript has not survived in complete condition.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 217 parchment leaves (size 19.3 cm by 15.0 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 24 lines per page. The leaves are arranged in octavo. It contains the Eusebian Canon tables and pictures (portraits of Evangelists).

It lacks Matthew 24:27-33.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Iκ.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Minuscule 931” as new Testament manuscript. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1361—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Minuscule, Testament and manuscript can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as new Testament manuscript. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q18207070. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1361.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Minuscule 931”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Minuscule 931 primary sources, Minuscule 931 archive and Minuscule research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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This entry incorporates text from “Minuscule 931” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.