Minuscule 565

Minuscule 565
New Testament manuscript
NameEmpress Theodora's Codex
TextGospels
Date9th century
ScriptGreek
Now atRussian National Library
Size17.6 cm by 19.2 cm
TypeCaesarean text-type
CategoryIII
Notemarginalia

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.

  1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs. p. 68.
  2. ^ Aland, Kurt; Welte, M.; Köster, B.; Junack, K. (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der Griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 79.
  3. ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Miller, Edward (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 250.