Minuscule 443

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Minuscule 443
New Testament manuscript
TextGospels
Date12th century
ScriptGreek
Now atCambridge University Library
Size28 cm by 21.5 cm
TypeByzantine text-type
CategoryV
Notemarginalia

Minuscule 443 (in the

minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.[2] It has marginalia
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Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 235 parchment leaves (28 cm by 21.5 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, in 24 lines per page.[2] The columns have size only 17.3 by 5.5 cm.[3]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).[3]

It contains the

Menologion, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.[4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual cluster M159 in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.[6]

The Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is marked with an obelus.[3]

History

The manuscript is dated by the

INTF to the 12th century.[2]

The manuscript once belonged to Anthony Askew (1722-1774) (as codices 438 and 439). It was bought for the University Library in 1775 for £20, at the celebrated book-sale of Anthony Askew.

C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.[3]

It is currently housed at the Cambridge University Library (Nn. 2.36) in Cambridge.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 64.
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  3. ^ a b c d e Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 190.
  4. ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (2005) [1894]. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 239.
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  7. ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (2005) [1894]. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1. London. p. 225.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Further reading

  • F. H. A. Scrivener, An Exact Transcript of the Codex Augiensis (Cambridge and London, 1859), pp. 35–38.

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