Minuscule 323

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 374 parchment leaves ({{×|13.5|10.2}}) with some lacunae. The text is written in one column per page, in 18 lines per page. The texts of Acts 1:1-8; 2:36-45 were supplied by a later hand. There are other small defects. It is beautifully but carelessly written, without subscriptions at the end of books.{{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

| edition = 4

| volume = 1

| page = 287

}}

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, but the Byzantine element is very strong. Aland assigned it to Category II in Catholic epistles, and to Category III elsewhere. Textually it is very close to the codex 322, as a sister manuscript.{{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 = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n154 132]

| url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt

| url-access = limited

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

It is a member of the textual family 1739.

In Acts 8:37 it has an additional verse together with the manuscripts Codex Laudianus, 453, 945, 1739, 1891, 2818 (formerly 36^a), and several others.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.

In Acts 8:39 it has addition {{lang|grc|πνεῦμα ἅγιον ἐπέπεσεν ἐπὶ τὸν εὐνοῦχον, ἄγγελος δέ κυρίου ἥρπασεν τὸν Φίλιππον}} (the holy spirit fell on the eunuch, and an angel caught up Philip). This reading is supported by the manuscripts Codex Alexandrinus, 453, 945, 1739, 1891, 2818, it^p, vg, syr^h, and several others.

The manuscript was brought from Greece. It was examined by Mill, Griesbach, and Scholz. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.{{Cite book

| last = Gregory

| first = Caspar René

| author-link = Caspar René Gregory

| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments

| publisher = Hinrichs

| year = 1900

| location = Leipzig

| volume = 1

| page = 266

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n279/mode/2up

}}

Formerly it was designated by 29^a and 35^p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 323 to it.

The manuscript is currently housed in the Bibliothèque de Genève (Gr. 20) in Geneva.

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

{{Reflist|2}}

• W. J. Elliott, The Relationship between 322 and 323 of the Greek New Testament, JTS 18 (1967), pp. 423–25.

• [http://www.skypoint.com/members/waltzmn/Manuscripts1-500.html#m323 Minuscule 323] at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism

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Category:Greek New Testament minuscules

Category:12th-century biblical manuscripts