Minuscule 383

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Minuscule 383 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 353 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 13th century.^[1][2]

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, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 181 parchment leaves (18 cm by 13 cm) with lacunae (Heb. 13:7-25). Written in one column per page, in 24-28 lines per page.^[1][3] Folio 182, bound with the codex, contains text of lectionary 922.^[1]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Western text-type in Acts of the Apostles.^[4] In rest of books it represents the Alexandrian text-type.

History

The manuscript was examined by Wettstein, Gaisford, Scholz, Pott, and Gregory. Codex 58^a of Wettstein is the same as 22^a.^[3]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Bodleian Library (E. D. Clarke 9, fol. 1-181) in Oxford.^[1]

See also

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

References

• 1. Aland, K.; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 69. ISBN 3110119862.
• 2. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 184.
• 3. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1. London. p. 289.
• 4. David Alan Black, New Testament Textual Criticism, Baker Books, 2006, p. 65.

Further reading

• August Pott, Der abendländische Text der Apostelgeschichte und die Wir-Quelle, Leipzig 1900, p. 78-88.
• A. V. Valentine-Richards, The Text of Acts in Codex 614 (Tisch 137) and its Allies (Cambridge, 1934).

External links

• Minuscule 383 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism
• Wikipedia Article on Minuscule 383