{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''54''' | image = Minuscule 54.jpg | isize = | caption= The beginning of the Gospel of Matthew | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 1337/1338 | found = | now at = Bodleian Library | cite = | size = {{×|16.3|12}} | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = }}
'''Minuscule 54''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 445 (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. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1337 or 1338.<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=30054 | title = Liste Handschriften | publisher = Institute for New Testament Textual Research | access-date = 2014-10-22 | location = Münster}}</ref> It has complex contents and marginalia.
== Description ==
The codex contains complete text of the four Gospels on 230 leaves (size {{×|16.3|12}}). The text is written in one column per page, 23-27 lines per page.<ref name = Aland/> Name of scribe was Theodosius.<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 = 141 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n153/mode/2up }}</ref>
The text was broken up into paragraphs, beginning with red capital letters.<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> 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, but no references to the Eusebian Canons.<ref name = Gregory/>
It contains synaxaria, Menologion, Eusebian Canon tables at the beginning, tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), pictures, and subscriptions at the end of the Gospels.<ref name = Scrivener/>
== 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/> 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 = 138 | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref> According to the Claremont Profile Method it has mixed Byzantine text in Luke 1 and Luke 10; in Luke 20 it represents K<sup>x</sup>. It is related to the Π.<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>
The manuscript was ancestor for the codices 47, 56, 58. Its text is familiar to the manuscript 171 and 109.<ref name = Gregory/>
== History ==
The manuscript was written by Theodosius.<ref name = Gregory/> In 1636 William Laud presented the manuscript to the Bodleian Library.<ref name = Gregory/> It was examined by Mill (Selden 2) and Bentley. Bentley used it as codex κ.<ref name = Scrivener/> C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.<ref name = Gregory/>
It is currently housed in at the Bodleian Library (Selden Supra 29), 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 | page = 141 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n153/mode/2up }}
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