Minuscule 903 (Gregory-Aland)

New Testament manuscripts
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Minuscule 903
Text Gospels
Date 14th century
Script Greek
Now at Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria
Size 18 cm by 13 cm
Type Byzantine
Category none
Note marginalia

Minuscule 903 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 4002 (von Soden),[1] is a 14th-century Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on paper. It has marginalia. The manuscript has survived in complete condition.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 233 paper leaves (size 18 cm by 13 cm), with some lacunae.[2] The text is written in one column per page, 22 lines per page.[2][3][4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine. Kurt Aland did not place it in any Category.[5]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it has a mixture of the text-types in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. It is related to M groups.[6]

History

According to the colophon it was written in 1382 by Theoleiptus in Damietta.[4] Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 14th century.[3]

It was examined and described by Victor Gardthausen (as 421).[4][7]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory (903e).[4] It was not on the Scrivener's list, but it was added to his list by Edward Miller in the 4th edition of A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament.[8]

One leaf of the codex was brought in the 19th century to Petersburg. The leaf contains text of the Gospel of John 1:1-15. In 1908 Gregory gave number 2168 to it.[1] It was later erased and included to minuscule 903 on the list Gregory-Aland.[2][3]

The leaf from Petersburg was examined by Kurt Treu.[9] Jacob Greelings collated the text of the Gospel of Matthew and it was included as appendix C to work of R. Chaplin "Family E and Its Allies in Matthew".[10]

It is not cited in critical editions of the Greek New Testament (UBS4,[11] NA28[12]).

232 folios of the manuscript is housed at the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria (451). One leaf is housed at the National Library of Russia (Gr. 398) in Saint Petersburg.[2][3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 78.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Aland, Kurt; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 101. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 231.
  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. ↑ 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. 67. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
  7. ↑ Viktor Gardthausen (1886). Catalogus codicum Graecorum Sinaiticorum. Oxford. p. 258.
  8. ↑ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 276.
  9. ↑ Kurt Treu (1966). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbiblisi und Erevan. Texte und Untersuchungen 91. Berlin. pp. 155–156.
  10. ↑ Russell Champlin, Family E and Its Allies in Matthew (Studies and Documents, XXIII; Salt Lake City, 1967), pp. 170-200.
  11. ↑ Aland, B.; Aland, K.; J. Karavidopoulos, C. M. Martini, B. Metzger, A. Wikgren (1993). The Greek New Testament (4 ed.). Stuttgart: United Bible Societies. p. 18*. ISBN 978-3-438-05110-3.
  12. ↑ Nestle, Eberhard et Erwin; communiter ediderunt: B. et K. Aland, J. Karavidopoulos, C. M. Martini, B. M. Metzger (2001). Novum Testamentum Graece (27 ed.). Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft. p. 812. ISBN 978-3-438-05100-4.

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