Minuscule 566 Explained

Minuscule 566 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 93 (Soden),^[1] also known as the Empress Theodora's Codex. It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment, dated palaeographically to the 9th century.^[2]

Description

The codex contains the text of Gospel of Matthew and Gospel of Mark on 259 parchment leaves (size). The text is written in two columns per page, 23 lines per page,^[2] in early minuscule letters.

It contains Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian tables at the beginning, tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια before each Gospel, numbers of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια at the margin (chapters), the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: τιτλοι at the top (titles), the Ammonian Sections, (not the Eusebian Canons). It has the famous Jerusalem Colophon : Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: ευαγγελιον κατα ματθαιον εγραφη και αντεβληθη εκ των ιεροσολυμοις παλαιων αντιγραφων των εν τω αγιω ορει αποκειμενων εν στιχοις βφιδ. κεφφ. τνε.^[3] There are some marginal notes in uncial letters were made.

It contains scholia at the margin in small uncial script. According to Tischendorf scholion to the Gospel of Matthew cites the Gospel of the Hebrews:

Matthew 4:5 το ιουδαικον ουκ εχει εις την αγιαν πολιν αλλ εν ιλημ

Matthew 16:17 Βαριωνα το ιουδαικον υιε ιωαννου

Matthew 18:22 το ιουδαικον εξης εχει μετα το εβδομηκοντακις επτα και γαρ εν τοις προφηταις μετα το χρισθηναι αυτους εν πνι αγιω ευρισκετω εν αυτοις λογος αμαρτιας

Matthew 26:47 το ιουδαικου και ηρνησατο και ωμοσεν και κατηρασατο.^[4]

Phrase "το ιουδαικου" probably means Gospel of the Hebrews.

Text

The Greek text of the codex Aland did not place in any Category.^[5]

History

De Muralt dated the manuscript to the 9th or 10th century.^[6] Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 9th-century.

The manuscript was brought by Constantin von Tischendorf in 1859. The manuscripts was examined and described by Tischendorf^[7] (along with the codices 565, 568-572, 574, 575, and 1567), by Tregelles, Eduard de Muralt, and Kurt Treu.^[8]

Formerly it was bounded in one manuscript with Codex Tischendorfianus III.

The codex now is located at the National Library of Russia (Gr. 54, 121 fol.; Gr. 282, 1 fol.) at Saint Petersburg.

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Purple parchment
• Textual criticism

Further reading

• Constantin von Tischendorf, Notitia editionis codicis Bibliorum Sinaitici (Leipzig: 1860), pp. 58–59.
• Eduard de Muralt, Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque Impériale publique (Petersburg 1864), pp. 30–31.
• Kurt Treu, Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbiblisi und Erevan, Texte und Untersuchungen 91 (Berlin, 1966), pp. 48–50.
• A. Schmidtke, Neue Fragmente und Untersuchungen zu den judenchristlichen Evangelien, T & U 37/1 (Leipzig, 1911), pp. 1–31.

External links

• Image from the codex (the Eusebian tables) at the RNB

Notes and References

1. Book: Gregory, Caspar René. Caspar René Gregory. Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. 1908. J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. Leipzig. 68.
2. K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 79.
3. Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . J.C. Hinrichs . 1900 . Leipzig . 1 . 203–204 .
4. Book: Scrivener , Frederick Henry Ambrose . Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener . Edward Miller . . . 1894 . 4 . London . 1 . 161 .
5. Book: Aland . Kurt . Kurt Aland . Aland . Barbara . Barbara Aland . Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) . The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism . . 1995 . Grand Rapids . 133, 139 . 978-0-8028-4098-1.
6. [Eduard de Muralt]
7. [Constantin von Tischendorf]
8. [Kurt Treu]