{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''49''' | image = Minuscule_49.png | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 12th century | found = 1628, Thomas Roe | now at = Bodleian Library | cite = | size = {{×|14.5|11}} | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = full marginalia }}
'''Minuscule 49''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 155 (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/n61/mode/2up | year = 1908 | publisher = J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung | location = Leipzig | page=50}}</ref> is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. It has complex contents and full marginalia.
== Description ==
The codex contains the complete text of the four Gospels on 223 parchment leaves (size {{×|14.5|11}}). The text is written stichometrically in one column per page, 26-27 lines per page.<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=30049 | title = Liste Handschriften | publisher = Institute for New Testament Textual Research | access-date = 2014-10-19 | location = Münster}}</ref> After the biblical text followed "Historia tripartita" of Cassiodorus in Lombards language.<ref name = Gregory>{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes | publisher = Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 140 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n153/mode/2up }}</ref>
The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''chapters''), whose numerals are given at the margin, and their {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (''titles'') at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with some references to the Eusebian Canons.{{r|Gregory}}
It contains the Eusebian Canon tables at the beginning of the manuscript, tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel, lectionary equipment at the margin (for liturgical use), subscriptions at the end of the Gospels, and numbers of {{lang|grc|στιχοι}} to the Gospel of Luke.<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. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K<sup>x</sup>.<ref name = Wisse/> Kurt 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 | year = 1995 | location = Grand Rapids | page = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n160 138] | url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref> According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family Family K<sup>x</sup> in Luke 1 and Luke 10. In Luke 20 it represents family Πa.<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 11th or 12th century.{{r|Gregory}} Currently it has been assigned by the INTF to the 12th century.{{r|Aland|INTF}}
The manuscript was brought from Turkey about 1628 together with Codex Alexandrinus, by the English ambassador at the court of Sultan, Sir Thomas Roe.{{r|Scrivener}} It was examined by John Mill (as Roe 1).{{r|Gregory}}
It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by J. J. Wettstein. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.{{r|Gregory}}
Since 1628 it has been housed at the Bodleian Library (MS. Roe 1), at Oxford.{{r|Aland|INTF}}
== See also == {{Portal|Bible}} * List of New Testament minuscules * Biblical manuscript * Textual criticism
== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* {{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 = 140 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n153/mode/2up }}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0049}} Category:Greek New Testament minuscules Category:12th-century biblical manuscripts Category:Bodleian Library collection