Minuscule 54
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Minuscule 54 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 445 (Von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Dated by a colophon to the year 1337 or 1338.[1]
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Description
The codex contains complete text of the four Gospels on 230 leaves (size 16.3 cm by 12 cm). Written in one column per page, 23-27 lines per page.[2] Name of scribe was Theodosius.[3]
The text broken up into paragraphs, beginning with red capital letters.[4] It contains synaxaria, Menologion, Eusebian tables, tables of κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, the Ammonian Sections, lectionary markings, but not the Eusebian Canons, pictures, and subscriptions.[5]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[6]
The manuscript was ancestor for the codices 47, 56, 58. Its text is familiar to the manuscript 171 and 109.[7]
History
The manuscript was written by Theodosius.[8] In 1636 William Laud presented the manuscript to the Bodleian Library.[9] It was examined by Mill and Bentley.[10]
It is currently housed in at the Bodleian Library (Selden Supra 29), at Oxford.[11]
See also
References
- ^ a b c K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 49.
- ^ a b c d Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 141.
- ^ a b c F. H. A. Scrivener, "A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament" (George Bell & Sons: London 1894), Vol. 1, p. 147.
- ^ Kurt Aland, and Barbara Aland, "The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism", transl. Erroll F. Rhodes, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995, p. 138.
