Minuscule 203

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Minuscule 203
Text New Testament (except Rev.)
Date 16th century
Script modern Greek
Now at National Central Library (Florence)
Size 22 cm by 14.7 cm
Type Byzantine text-type
Category V

This Wikipedia page needs to be CORRECTED. This page is not describing the correct manuscript. Minuscule 203 (according to Kurzgefasste Liste maintained by the Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung) is a twelfth-century manuscript of Acts, Pauline letters, and the Apocalypse of John. It has 149 leaves and which measure 21.5 x 29.5 cm. It is housed at the British Library (Add. 28816). That is not what is described below. See http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php

Minuscule 203 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 203 (Soden),[1] is a modern Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 16th century.[2]

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Description

The codex contains the text of the New Testament (except Book of Revelation) on 443 paper leaves (size 22 cm by 14.7 cm).[2] The order of books: Gospels, Pauline epistles, Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles.[3]

It is written in one column per page, in 26 lines per page.[3] It contains the Synaxarion.

The Greek language of the codex is modern.[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[4]

It was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method.[5]

History

The manuscript once belonged to Jean Hurault Boistaller (like codices 10, 263, 301, 306, 314).

It was housed in the monastery S. Marco in Florence.[3]

It was examined by Birch and Scholz. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.[3]

It is currently housed at the National Central Library (Convent. I. 10. 7), at Florence.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 55. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n65/mode/2up. 
  2. ^ a b c K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 59.
  3. ^ a b c d e Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 166. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n179/mode/2up. 
  4. ^ Aland, Kurt; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
  5. ^ Wisse, Frederik (1982). The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 57. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 

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