Minuscule 565
New Testament manuscript
NameEmpress Theodora's Codex
TextGospels †
Date9th century
ScriptGreek
Now atRussian National Library
Size17.6 cm by 19.2 cm
TypeCaesarean text-type
CategoryIII
Notemarginalia

Minuscule 565 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 93 (Soden),[1] also known as the Empress Theodora's Codex, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on purple parchment, dated palaeographically to the 9th century.[2] It was labelled by Scrivener as 473.[3] The manuscript is lacunose. It has marginalia.

Description

The codex is one of only two known purple minuscules (minuscule 1143 is the other), written with gold ink.[4] It contains the text of the four Gospels on 405 purple parchment leaves (17.6 by 19.2 cm), with some lacunae (Matthew 20:18-26, 21:45-22:9, Luke 10:36-11:2, 18:25-37, 20:24-26, John 11:26-48, 13:2-23, 17:1-12). The text is written in one column per page, 17 lines per page.[2]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose number are given in the margin, and the τιτλοι (titles of chapters) written at the top of the pages in silver uncials. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections. There are no references to the Eusebian Canons.[5]

It contains the Eusebian tables, which were added by later hand. Tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) are placed before each of the four Gospels. It has the famous Jerusalem Colophon.[3][5]

The manuscript is similar to Beratinus 2 (Minuscule 1143).

Text

Minuscule 565 (Gregory-Aland)

The Greek text of the codex has been considered a representative of the so-called Caesarean text-type. Aland placed it in Category III. In the Gospel of Mark, this manuscript is closely aligned to Codex Koridethi.[6] According to Aland, the quality of the text is higher in the Gospel of Mark, however lower in Matthew and Luke.[7] Minuscule 565 is considered a member of Family 1 in the Gospel of John.[8]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the Alexandrian text in Luke 1 and Kx in Luke 10 and Luke 20.[9]

In John 1:29 it lacks ο Ιωαννης, a reading supported by the manuscripts א‎ A B K M N S U Y Δ Θ Π Ψ Ω 047 0141 8 9 1192.[10]

The entire verse of John 14:14 is omitted, a reading supported by the manuscripts X f1 1009 1365 ℓ 76 ℓ 253 b vgmss syrs, pal arm geo Diatessaron.[11]

It lacks the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:1), with an explanatory note.

History

The manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 9th century.[12]

The manuscript comes from the area of the Black Sea, in Pontus. In 1829 it was brought to Saint Petersburg. The manuscript was examined and described by Eduard de Muralt,[13] along with the codices 566, 568-572, 574, 575, and 1567. The text of Mark was edited in 1885 by Johannes Engebretsen Belsheim.[14]

The codex now is located at the Russian National Library (Gr. 53) at Saint Petersburg.[2][12]

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References

  1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs. p. 68.
  2. ^ a b c Aland, Kurt; Welte, M.; Köster, B.; Junack, K. (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der Griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 79.
  3. ^ a b Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Miller, Edward (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 250.
  4. ^ Waltz, R. (2007). "Minuscule 565 (GA) at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism".
  5. ^ a b Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 203.
  6. ^ Comfort, Philip Wesley (2005). Encountering the Manuscripts: An Introduction to New Testament Paleography & Textual Criticism. Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman. p. 89.
  7. ^ Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (ed.). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism (2nd ed.). Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans. p. 133.
  8. ^ Kilpatrick, George D. (1969). "Codex 565 of the Gospels". Theologische Zeitschrift. 25 (2): 130.
  9. ^ 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. 63. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
  10. ^ The Gospel According to John in the Byzantine Tradition. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft. 2007. p. 7. ISBN 978-3438051325.
  11. ^ Aland, Kurt; Black, Matthew; Martini, Carlo M.; Metzger, Bruce M.; Wikgren, Allen, eds. (1983). The Greek New Testament (3rd ed.). Stuttgart: United Bible Societies. p. 390. (UBS3)
  12. ^ a b "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved April 21, 2013.
  13. ^ Eduard de Muralt (1864). Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque Impériale publique (in French). Saint Petersburg. pp. 29–30.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  14. ^ Belsheim, Johannes (1885). "Das Evangelium des Markus nach dem griechischen Codex aureus Theodorae Imperatricis purpureus Petropolitanus aus dem 9th Jahrhundert". Christiania Videnskabs-Selskabs Forhandlinger. 9.

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