{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''45''' | image = Minuscule 45 f.6v.jpg | isize = | caption= Portrait of Matthew Evangelist on folio 6 verso | name = | sign = | text = Gospels † | script = Greek | date = 13th century | found = 1760-1770, Athos | now at = Bodleian Library | cite = | size = {{×|18.5|13.5}} | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = marginalia }}

'''Minuscule 45''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 442 (Von Soden),<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/n59/mode/2up | year = 1908 | publisher = J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung | location = Leipzig | page=49}}</ref> is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. It has complex contents and full marginalia.

== Description ==

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 398 leaves (size {{×|18.5|13.5}}) with only one lacunae (Mark 2:5-15). The text is written in one column per page, 19-21 lines per page in very neat minuscule letters.<ref name = Aland>K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", ''Walter de Gruyter'', Berlin, New York 1994, p. 49.</ref><ref name = INTF>{{Cite web | url = http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/en_GB/liste/?ObjID=30045 | title = Liste Handschriften |publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research | access-date = 2014-10-19 | location = Münster}}</ref> The initial letters in gold or red.<ref name = Gregory>{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes | publisher = J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 139 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n151/mode/2up }}</ref>

The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, with occasional {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (''titles'') at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Matthew 355, Mark 233 – 16:8; Luke 342, John 230 sections), with references to the Eusebian Canons.<ref name = Gregory/>

The codex contains the Eusebian Canon tables at the beginning, tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''tables of contents'') precede each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, numbers of {{lang|grc|στιχοι}} in the Gospel of Luke, and pictures.<ref name = Scrivener>{{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 = 1894 | location = London | edition = 4 | volume = 1 | page = 197 }}</ref><ref name = Gregory/>

== Text ==

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type.<ref name = Tischendorf>{{Cite book | author = C.v. Tischendorf | url = https://archive.org/details/novumtestamentu00tiscgoog/page/n222/mode/2up?view=theater | title = Novum Testamentum Graece. Editio Septima | location = Lipsiae | year = 1859 | page = CXCIX}}</ref> Hermann von Soden included it to the textual family K<sup>x</sup>.<ref name = Wisse/> Kurt and Barbara 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 | others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) | 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 | date = 1995 | location = Grand Rapids | page = 138 | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref> According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family K<sup>x</sup> in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.<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/53 53] | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/53 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration }}</ref>

== History ==

The manuscript was dated by Gregory to the 14th century.{{r|Gregory}} Currently it has been assigned by the INTF to the 13th century.{{r|Aland|INTF}}

The codex was brought from Athos to England by César de Missy (1703-1775), French chaplain of George III, King of England, who spent his life in collecting materials for an edition of the New Testament. It was examined by Mill (Bodl. 1), Griesbach, and Wetstein in 1746.<ref name = Scrivener/>

It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Wettstein. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.{{r|Gregory}}

It is currently housed in at the Bodleian Library (Barocci 31), at Oxford.{{r|Aland|INTF}}

== See also ==

* List of New Testament minuscules * Biblical manuscript * Textual criticism

== References ==

{{Reflist}}

== Further reading ==

* Giancarlo Prato, ''Scritture librarie arcaizzanti della prima età dei Paleologi e loro modelli'' [first published 1979], reprinted in his collected articles, Studi di paleografia greca, Spoleto 1994, pp.&nbsp;73–114, Tavv. 1-24, at pp.&nbsp;78, 85, 109 n. 87

== External links ==

{{Commons category|Minuscule 45 (GA)}} * [https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/1c966b83-7c59-45cb-8e18-22c9f09b4895/surfaces/f9564c75-4aff-47cc-b1cb-7154ac6d6b7e/ MS. Barocci 31] Images available on Digital Bodleian * [https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_1088 MS. Barocci 31] In the Bodleian Libraries Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts

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