Minuscule 263

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Minuscule 263 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 372 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 13th century.<ref name = Aland>K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 62. </ref>

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 New Testament except Book of Revelation on 294 parchment leaves (21.1 cm by 15.7 cm). Written in one column per page, in 28-29 lines.<ref name = Aland/> Order of books: Gospels, Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles, Hebrews after 2 Thessalonians. It contains stichoi, the Eusebian tables, the Ammonian Sections, and subscriptions. It has not the Eusebian Canons.<ref name = Gregory>C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 173. </ref>

Ending of the Epistle to the Romans has the order of verses: 16:23; 16:25-27; 16:24 (as in codices P 33 104 256 365 436 459 1319 1573 1852 arm).

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type (except Paul). Aland placed it in Category III in Pauline epistles and in Category V in rest of books.<ref>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. </ref> It belongs to the textual family K¹.

History

The manuscript belonged to Jean Hurault Boistaller, together with the manuscripts 10, 203, 301, 306, 314. The manuscripts was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Johannes Martin Augustinus Scholz (1794-1852).<ref name = Scrivener>F. H. A. Scrivener, "A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament" (George Bell & Sons: London 1861), p. 168. </ref>

The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 61) at Paris.<ref name = Aland/>

See also

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

References

Further reading

External links

• Minuscule 263 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism