Minuscule 503

New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionaries
Minuscule 503
Text Gospel of John
Date 13th-century
Script Greek
Now at British Library
Size 12.3 cm by 8.5 cm
Type mixed
Category none
Note full marginalia

Minuscule 503 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 325 (in the Soden numbering),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th-century.[2] Scrivener labelled it by number 590. The manuscript is lacunose.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of John on 60 parchment leaves (size 12.3 cm by 8.5 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 25-27 lines per page.[2]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters) with numbers given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. It is also divided according to the Ammonian Sections, but there are no references to the Eusebian Canons. It has lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use).[3][4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a mixture of the text-types. Aland did not place it in any Category.[5]

History

The manuscript was written by Cosmas Vanaretus, a monk. Formerly it belonged to the monastery of St. Maximus. In 1853 it was bought together with Minuscule 502 from Constantine Simonides.[3][4]

It was added to the list of the New testament manuscripts by F. H. A. Scrivener (590) and C. R. Gregory (503).[4]

It was examined by Bloomfield,[6] Scrivener, and Gregory (in 1883).[4]

It is currently housed at the British Library (Additional Manuscripts, 19389) in London.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 66.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 77. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament 1 (4th ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 259.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 196.
  5. ↑ Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  6. ↑ Bloomfield, S. T. (1860). Critical Annotations: Additional and Supplementary on the New Testament. London: Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts.

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