Minuscule 573 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), ε 447 (in the
von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is a
Greek minuscule
Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (or more formally ''minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing ...
manuscript of the
New Testament, on parchment. Using the study of comparative writing styles (
palaeography), it has been assigned to the 13th century CE.
The manuscript has complex contents.
Description
The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book) containing the text of the four
Gospels on 189 parchment leaves (size ). The writing is in one column per page, 29 lines per page.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is considered a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Biblical scholar Hermann von Soden
Baron Hermann von Soden (16 August 1852 – 15 January 1914) was a German Biblical scholar, minister, professor of divinity, and textual theorist.
Life
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 16, 1852, Soden was educated at the University of Tübinge ...
classified it to his group A, related to the Antiocheian commentated text (along with Minuscule 534
Minuscule 534 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), 547 (Scrivener's numbering), ε 333 (in Soden's numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on a paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. The manus ...
, Minuscule 546
Minuscule 546 (in the Biblical manuscript#Gregory-Aland, Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 511 (in Biblical manuscript#Von Soden, Soden's numbering), is a Greek language, Greek Lower case, minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is ...
, Minuscule 558
Minuscule 558 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 275 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on a parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.
Scrivener labelled it by numbe ...
, and Minuscule 715
Minuscule 715 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε364 ( von Soden), Hermann von Soden, ''Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte'' (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 178. ...
).Kurt Aland
Kurt Aland (28 March 1915 – 13 April 1994) was a German theologian and biblical scholar who specialized in New Testament textual criticism. He founded the '' Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung'' (Institute for New Testament Textua ...
placed it in Category V of his New Testament manuscript classification system.
History
The manuscript was written in time of Andronikos II Palaiologos
, image = Andronikos II Palaiologos2.jpg
, caption = Miniature from the manuscript of George Pachymeres' ''Historia''
, succession = Byzantine emperor
, reign = 11 December 1282 –24 May 1328
, coronation = 8 Novembe ...
(1272–1332).
It was bought from Athens in 1884 along with the codex 531
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Year 531 (Roman numerals, DXXXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year after the Consulship of Lampadius and Rufius Gennadius Probus ...
. It was examined and described by William Charles Braithwaite.
The manuscript is currently housed in the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham (Braithwaite Greek MS 2).
See also
* List of New Testament minuscules
* Biblical manuscript
A biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. Biblical manuscripts vary in size from tiny scrolls containing individual verses of the Jewish scriptures (see ''Tefillin'') to huge polyglot codices (multi-ling ...
* Textual criticism
References
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Greek New Testament minuscules
13th-century biblical manuscripts