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Minuscule 566

Minuscule 566
New Testament manuscript
Text Gospel of Matthew, Gospel of Mark
Date 9th century
Script Greek
Found 1859, Tischendorf
Now at National Library of Russia
Size 21.5 cm by 17 cm
Type Byzantine/mixed
Category none

Minuscule 566 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 93 (Soden), 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.

The codex contains the text of Gospel of Matthew and Gospel of Mark on 259 parchment leaves (size 21.5 cm by 17 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 23 lines per page, in early minuscule letters.

It contains Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian tables at the beginning, tables of the κεφαλαια before each Gospel, numbers of the κεφαλαια at the margin (chapters), the τιτλοι at the top (titles), the Ammonian Sections, (not the Eusebian Canons). It has the famous Jerusalem Colophon : ευαγγελιον κατα ματθαιον εγραφη και αντεβληθη εκ των ιεροσολυμοις παλαιων αντιγραφων των εν τω αγιω ορει αποκειμενων εν στιχοις βφιδ. κεφφ. τνε. 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:

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

The Greek text of the codex Aland did not place in any Category.

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


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