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'''Minuscule 918''' (in the [[Biblical manuscript#Gregory-Aland|Gregory-Aland]] numbering), O <sup>66</sup> ([[Biblical manuscript#Von Soden|von Soden]]),<sup>[1]</sup> is a 16th-century [[Greek language|Greek]] [[Lower case|minuscule]] [[manuscript]] of the [[New Testament]] on paper, with a commentary. The manuscript is famous for the [[Comma Johanneum]].

== Description ==

The [[codex]] contains the text of the [[Catholic epistles|Catholic]] and [[Pauline epistles]] on 397 paper leaves (size {{×|34.5|23.5}}). The text is written in one column per page, 28 lines per page.<sup>[2]</sup><sup>[3]</sup><sup>[4]</sup> The Catholic epistles contain a commentary.

== Text ==
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the [[Byzantine text-type]] in the Pauline epistles. In the Catholic epistles it has mixed text with some old and valuable readings.  [[Kurt Aland|Kurt]] and [[Barbara Aland]] gave it the following textual profile in the Catholic epistles: 63<sup>1</sup>, 7<sup>1/2</sup>, 15<sup>2</sup>, 15<sup>s</sup>. This means the text of the manuscript agrees with the Byzantine standard text 63 times, and 7 times with the Byzantine when it has the same reading as the original text, it agrees 15 times with the original text against the Byzantine, it has 15 independent or distinctive readings (''Sonderlesarten''). In the Pauline epistles Alands gave the profile – 165<sup>1</sup>, 44<sup>1/2</sup>, 1<sup>2</sup>, 6<sup>s</sup>. Alands placed the Greek text of the Pauline epistles in [[Categories of New Testament manuscripts#Category V|Category V]] and the text of the Catholic epistles in the Category III.<sup>[4]</sup>

It contains a spurious biblical passage the [[Comma Johanneum]] (from the original scribe).<sup>[5]</sup>

== History ==
[[F. H. A. Scrivener]] dated it to the fourteenth century.<sup>[6]</sup> [[C. R. Gregory]] dated the manuscript to the sixteenth century, which is in conformation with the current dating by the [[Institute for New Testament Textual Research|INTF]]. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (206<sup>a</sup>) Gregory (234<sup>a</sup>). Gregory saw it in 1886. It was briefly described by Emmanuel Miller (Miller 8).<sup>7[]</sup> In 1908 Gregory gave it the number 918.<ref name = Gregory1908/> Currently the manuscript is housed at the library of [[Escorial]] (Cod. Escurialensis, Σ. I. 5), in [[Escurial]].

== See also ==

* [[List of New Testament minuscules]]
* [[Biblical manuscript]]
* [[Textual criticism]]
* [[Codex Ravianus]]

== References ==


== Further reading ==

* Emmanuel Miller, [http://books.google.pl/books?id=iiIDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR27&lpg#PPP9,M1 ''Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la bibliothèque de l'Escurial''] (Paris 1848), pp. 54-66.

== External links ==
* [http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/en_GB/liste/?ObjID=30918 Liste Handschriften - Institute for New Testament Textual Research]


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[[Category:Greek New Testament minuscules]]
[[Category:16th-century biblical manuscripts]]
[[Category:Vatican Library]]