Minuscule 303

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Minuscule 303
Text	Gospels †
Date	1255
Script	Greek
Now at	Bibliothèque nationale de France
Size	29.2 cm by 23.2 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V

Minuscule 303 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Θ^ε32 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on cotton paper. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1255.^[2]

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 321 paper leaves (29.2 cm by 23.2 cm) with some lacunae. The text is written in one column per page, in 33 lines per page.^[2] John 1:1-3:29 is written on vellum.

It contains Synaxarion (added by later hand) and numbers of Verses at the end of each Gospel. It contains Homilies of Chrysostomos to Matthew 13-14, and some iambic verses. The biblical text is surrounded by a catena.^[3] The commentary is of Theophylact's authorship.^[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 the Claremont Profile Method.^[5]

History

The manuscript was written by Nicander, a monk.^[3] It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794–1852).^[6] The manuscript was examined by Wettstein and Scholz (1794–1852).^[3] It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.^[7] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.^[3]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 194A) at Paris.^[2]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 58. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n69/mode/2up. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} Aland, K.; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 65. ISBN 3110119862. 
3. ^ ^{a b c d e} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 177. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n189/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. 59. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 
6. ^ 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. 225. 
7. ^ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs relatifs au Nouveau Testament, conservés dans les bibliothèques de Paris (Paris 1883), p. 79.

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 177. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n189/mode/2up. 

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