{{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''445''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 1506 | found = | now at = British Library | cite = | size = {{×|20.9|15|cm}} | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = marginalia }}

'''Minuscule 445''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 603 (in the Soden numbering),<ref name = Gregory1908>{{cite book|last=Gregory|first=Caspar René|author-link=Caspar René Gregory|title=Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament|url=https://archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n75/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=64}}</ref> is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1506.<ref name = Aland>{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland |author2=M. Welte |author3=B. Köster |author4=K. Junack | title = Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments | publisher = Walter de Gruyter | year = 1994 | location = Berlin, New York | page = 73 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}</ref> It has marginalia.

== Description ==

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 194 paper leaves ({{×|20.9|15|cm}}). It is written in one column per page, in 24 lines per page.<ref name = Aland/>

The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, with their {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (''titles'') at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 241, 16:20). It has no references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).<ref name = Gregory>{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = J.C. Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 190 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n203/mode/2up }}</ref>

It contains lectionary markings at the margin and incipits.<ref>{{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 = 2005|orig-date=1894 | location = London | edition = 4 | volume = 1 | page = 239 }}</ref>

== Text ==

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland | last2 = Aland | first2 = Barbara | author-link2 = Barbara Aland | translator-first = Erroll F.|translator-last=Rhodes | 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 = 139 | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref> It was not examined by Claremont Profile Method.<ref name = Wisse>{{Cite book | last = Wisse | first = Frederik | title = The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1982 | location = Grand Rapids | page = [https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/60 60] | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/60 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration }}</ref>

The text of the Matthew 16:2b–3 and Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) are omitted.<ref name = Gregory/>

== History ==

According to the colophon the manuscript was written in 1506, by hand ''Antonii eparchi''. It once belonged to the Jesuit's Colleague, in Augen, on the Garonne.<ref name = Gregory/> It was sold to Edward Harley on 28 July 1725. After his death it was bought for British Museum in 1753.<ref>[http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=5003&CollID=8&NStart=5736 Harley MS 5736] at the ''British Library''</ref>

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).<ref>{{Cite book | last = Scrivener | first = Frederick Henry Ambrose | author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener | title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament | orig-year = 1894| year = 2005 | location = London | volume = 1 | page = 225 }}</ref> Scholz examined only Mark 5. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.<ref name = Gregory/>

It is currently housed at the British Library (Harley MS 5736).<ref name = Aland/>

== See also ==

{{Portal|Bible}} * List of New Testament minuscules * Biblical manuscript * Textual criticism

== References ==

{{Reflist}}

== Further reading ==

* Henri Omont, ''Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum'', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes, 45 (1884), 314–50, 584 (p.&nbsp;335). * ''Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts'' (London: British Library, 1999- ), I, pp.&nbsp;184–5 [with further bibliography].

== External links == * [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=5003&CollID=8&NStart=5736 Harley MS 5736] at the ''British Library''

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