Minuscule 223

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Minuscule 223 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α263 (Von Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it had been assigned to the 14th century.^[1] Formerly it was labeled by 223^a and 277^p.^[2] Scrivener labeled it by 220^a and 264^p.^[3]

Contents 1 Description 2 Text 3 History 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Pauline epistles, and Catholic epistles on 376 parchment leaves (size 28.2 cm by 21.3 cm), with some lacunae (first leaves in 2 Corr with 1:1-3, Eph. with 1:1-4, and Heb. with 1:1-6).^[1] Written in one column per page, 22-23 lines per page,^[1] on fine vellum with broad margins.^[3] Titles in gold, initial letters ornamented, brilliantly illuminated.^[4] It contains double prolegomena, Journeys and death of Paul, tables of κεφαλαια (to the Acts), κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, lectionary markings, Synaxarion, Menologion, and subscriptions.^[2] Yhe illuminations before each book

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[5]

History

The manuscript was written by Antonius, a monk.^[2] According to the colophon the manuscript was written by Antonios of Malaka in 1244. Dating of the manuscript is problematic, possibly colophon was not inseted by original scribe.

It is currently housed at the University of Michigan Library (Ms. 34), at Ann Arbor, Michigan.^[1]

See also

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

References

• 1. K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 60.
• 2. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 282.
• 3. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 299-300.
• 4. Bruce M. Metzger, Manuscripts of the Greek Bible, Oxford University Press, 1991, p. 134.
• 5. 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.

Further reading

• F. H. A. Scrivener, Adversaria critica sacra (Cambridge, 1893).
• K. W. Clark, Eight American Praxapostoloi, (Chicago, 1941).

External links

• Minuscule 223 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism
• Images from Minuscule 223 at the CSNTM
• Wikipedia Article on Minuscule 223