New Testament manuscript | |
Name | Empress Theodora's Codex |
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Text | Gospels † |
Date | 9th century |
Script | Greek |
Now at | Russian National Library |
Size | 17.6 cm by 19.2 cm |
Type | Caesarean text-type |
Category | III |
Note | marginalia |
Minuscule 565 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), ε 93 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts),[1] also known as the Empress Theodora's Codex, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on purple parchment. Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it has been assigned to the 9th century.[2] It was labelled by Biblical scholar Frederick H. A. Scrivener as 473.[3] The manuscript has several gaps. It has marginalia.