Minuscule 104

Minuscule 104

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
First page from the First Epistle of John with decorated initial
Text	Acts, Pauline epistles, Rev.
Date	1087
Script	Greek
Found	Asia Minor, John Covel
Now at	British Library
Size	11.7 cm by 9.4 cm
Type	Alexandrian / Byzantine
Category	III/V

Minuscule 104 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 103 (Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.

Formerly it was labelled by 25^a, 31^p, and 7^r. The manuscript is lacunose.

The codex contains almost complete text of the Acts, Pauline epistles, and the Book of Revelation on 286 parchment leaves (size 11.7 cm by 9.4 cm), with only one lacuna (1 John 5:14-2 John 5). The text is written in one column per page, in 23 lines per page.

According to the colophon it was written in 1087. The headpieces with geometric decorations. The initial letters in red.

It contains prolegomena, tables of the κεφάλαια (tables of contents) before each book, subscriptions at the end of each book, and numbers of στίχοι.

Ending of the Epistle to the Romans has the order of verses: 16:23; 16:25-27; 16:24 (as in codices P, 33, 256, 263, 365, 436, 459, 1319, 1573, 1852, arm).

The Greek text of the codex is an eclectic, in the Epistles it is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type and the Byzantine in the Acts and Apocalypse. Aland placed it in Category III in epistles, and in Category V in the Acts and Book of Revelation.