Minuscule 203 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 203 (Soden), is a modern Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 59.
Description
The codex contains the text of the New Testament (except Gospels) on 149 parchment leaves (size ), with some lacunae. The order of books: Pauline epistles, Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Apocalypse. It contains non-biblical material at the end with a list of the errors condemned by the Seven Ecumenical Councils.R. Waltz, Minuscule 203 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism
It is written in one column per page, in 32-33 lines per page.
It has Euthalian Apparatus.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.
History
The scribe of the codex was named Andreas.
It was examined by Birch and Scholz. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.
It is currently housed at the British Library (Add MS 28816), in London.
See also
List of New Testament minuscules Biblical manuscript Textual criticism
References
Further reading
External links
Minuscule 203 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism