| New Testament manuscript | |
| Text | Gospel of John † |
|---|---|
| Date | 15th century |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | Bodleian Library |
| Size | 13.5 cm by 9.5 cm |
| Category | none |
| Hand | beautifully written |
| Note | marginalia |
Minuscule 96 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 514 (von Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 15th century.[2] It has marginalia.
The codex contains the text of the Gospel of John on 62 leaves (size 13.5 cm by 9.5 cm) with one lacuna (18:18-34). The text is written in one columns per page, 18 lines per page.[2] It is beautifully written.[3] The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin (in Latin).[4]
It does not contain the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11).[4]
Kurt Aland did not place the text of the codex in any Category.[5]
The manuscript was beautifully written by Johannes Trithemius († 1516), abbot of Sponheim.[3] Then it belonged to Jan Cornarius († Jena 1558) Achates Cornarius († Kreuznach 1573). In 1607 it was received from Abraham Scultetus by George Hackwell, for the Oxford University library.[4]
It was examined by Ussher (for Walton), Mill (as Trit.), Griesbach (only chapters 3–4), and Tischendorf. It was used in Walton's Polyglott (Trit).[3] C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.[4]
It is currently housed at the Bodleian Library (MS. Auct. D. 2. 17), at Oxford.[2]