Minuscule 103 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ΟΘ28 (Soden), 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 100a and 115p.
Description
The codex contains a complete text of the Acts, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 333 parchment leaves (size ) with a catena.
It contains prolegomena, tables of the (tables of contents) before each book, and scholia. Synaxarion and (lessons) were added by a later hand (together 386 leaves).
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.
In Acts 8:39 instead of πνεῦμα κυρίου (spirit of the Lord) it has unusual textual variant (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, 36a, itp, vg, syrh.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 100a and 115p. Gregory in 1908 gave for it number 103.
It is currently housed at the State Historical Museum (V. 96, S. 347), at Moscow.
See also
List of New Testament minuscules Biblical manuscript Textual criticism
References
Further reading