Minuscule 103

{{short description|Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament}}

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| form = Minuscule

| number = 103

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| text = Acts, Pauline epistles

| script = Greek

| date = 12th century

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| now at = State Historical Museum

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| size = {{×|24|20}}

| type = Byzantine text-type

| cat = V

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Minuscule 103 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ΟΘ²⁸ (Soden),{{cite book|last=Gregory|first=Caspar René|author-link=Caspar René Gregory|title=Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament|url=https://archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n63/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=52}} is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. The manuscript has complex contents.K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 52.

Formerly it was labelled by 100^a and 115^p.{{Cite book

| last = Scrivener

| first = Frederick Henry Ambrose

| author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

|author2=Edward Miller

| title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament

| publisher = George Bell & Sons

| year = 1894

| location = London

| volume = 1

| page = 292

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Description

The codex contains a complete text of the Acts, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 333 parchment leaves (size {{×|24|20}}) with a catena.

It contains prolegomena, tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (tables of contents) before each book, and scholia. Synaxarion and {{lang|grc|αναγνωσεις}} (lessons) were added by a later hand (together 386 leaves).{{Cite book

| last = Gregory

| first = Caspar René

| author-link = Caspar René Gregory

| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments

| year = 1900

| location = Leipzig

| volume = 1

| page = 273

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n285/mode/2up

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The order of books is Acts of the Apostles, the Catholic epistles, and then the Pauline epistles. The order of the Pauline epistles is unusual: Romans, Hebrews, Colossians, 1-2 Thessalonians, Philippians, 1-2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Ephesians, Galatians, and 1-2 Corinthians.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. According to Kurt Aland in Acts it supports 65 times the Byzantine text against the original, 6 times the original against the Byzantine, 25 times agrees with both. It has 9 independent or distinctive readings. Aland placed it in Category V.{{Cite book

| last = Aland

| first = Kurt

| author-link = Kurt Aland

| last2 = Aland

| first2 = Barbara

| author-link2 = Barbara Aland

| others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.)

| title = The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism

| publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

| year = 1995

| location = Grand Rapids

| page = 129

| isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}

In Acts 8:39 instead of πνεῦμα κυρίου (spirit of the Lord) it has unusual textual variant {{lang|grc|πνεῦμα ἅγιον ἐπέπεσεν ἐπὶ τὸν εὐνοῦχον, ἄγγελος δέ κυρίου ἥρπασεν τὸν Φίλιππον}} (the Holy Spirit fell on the eunuch, and an angel of the Lord caught up Philip) supported by Codex Alexandrinus and several minuscule manuscripts: 94, 307, 322, 323, 385, 453, 467, 945, 1739, 1765, 1891, 2298, 36^a, it^p, vg, syr^h.Nestle-Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece, 26th edition, p. 345; Bruce M. Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft: Stuttgart 2001), p. 316.

History

The manuscript was examined by Matthaei.

Formerly it was labelled by 100^a and 115^p. Gregory in 1908 gave for it number 103.

It is currently housed at the State Historical Museum (V. 96, S. 347), at Moscow.

Minuscule 103

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