{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''53''' | image = Minuscule_53_(GA).png | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 13th/14th century | found = | now at = Bodleian Library | cite = | size = {{×|15.5|11.5}} | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = beautifully written | note = }}
'''Minuscule 53''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 444 (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. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th or 14th century.<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=30053 | title = Liste Handschriften | publisher = Institute for New Testament Textual Research | access-date = 2014-10-22 | location = Münster}}</ref> It has marginalia.
== Description ==
The codex contains complete text of the four Gospels on 140 leaves (size {{×|15.5|11.5}}).<ref name = Aland/> The text is written in one column per page, 29-33 lines per page. The initial letters in red ink.<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 | pages = 140–141 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n153/mode/2up }}</ref>
The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, with the {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (''titles of chapters'') at the top of the pages. There is no a division according to the Ammonian Sections with references to the Eusebian Canons.<ref name = Gregory/>
It contains Prolegomena, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.<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 = 198 }}</ref><ref name = Gregory/>
== Text ==
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. 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 represents K<sup>x</sup> text in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It creates textual pair with 902.<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/54 54] | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/54 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration }}</ref>
Textually it is close to Minuscule 271.
== History ==
The name of scribe was probably Nicholaus (?). The manuscript was examined by John Mill (Selden 1).<ref name = Gregory/> C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.<ref name = Gregory/>
It is currently housed in at the Bodleian Library (Selden Supra 28), at Oxford.<ref name = Aland/>
== See also ==
* List of New Testament minuscules * Biblical manuscript * Textual criticism
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
== 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 | pages = 140–141 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n153/mode/2up }}
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