{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''55''' | image = Minuscule 55, Matt 1.jpg | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 14th century | found = | now at = Bodleian Library | cite = | size = {{×|19.5|14}} | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = member of the K<sup>r</sup> group }}
'''Minuscule 55''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 349 (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 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=30055 | title = Liste Handschriften | publisher = Institute for New Testament Textual Research | access-date = 2014-10-22 | location = Münster}}</ref> The manuscript has complex contents and some marginalia. It was adapted for liturgical use.
== Description ==
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 349 parchment leaves (size {{×|19.5|14}}).<ref name = Aland/> The text is written in one column per page, 21 lines per page. The capital letters in 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 | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 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.<ref name = Scrivener/>
It has Prolegomena to Matthew, lists of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''tables of contents'') are placed before each Gospel, lectionary equipment on the margin (''incipits''), {{lang|grc|αναγνωσεις}} (''lessons''), liturgical books with hagiographies (synaxaria and Menologion), subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, with numbers of stichoi, and beautiful 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 = 198 }}</ref>
The manuscript containing also text Judges 6:1-24.<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>r</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 | pages = [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 the textual family Family K<sup>r</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 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/54 54, 92] | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/54 }}</ref>
== History ==
The manuscript was written by Γροιγοριου ιερομοναχου.{{r|Gregory}}
The manuscript was examined by Mill (as Selden 3), Grabe,<ref>John Ernest Grabe, ''Septuaginta interpretum. tomus 1. Continens Octateuchum; quem Ex antiquissimo MS. Codice Alexandrino accurate descriptum'', Oxford 1707</ref> Scholz, Tischendorf, and C. R. Gregory in 1883.<ref name = Gregory/>
It is currently housed in at the Bodleian Library (Selden Supra 6), 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 Buchahandlung | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 141 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n153/mode/2up }}
== External links ==
* [https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/0137b583-05a1-424e-9962-5b0cd19ec64e/ ''Bodleian Library MS. Selden Supra 6'']
{{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0055}} Category:Greek New Testament minuscules Category:14th-century biblical manuscripts Category:Septuagint manuscripts Category:Bodleian Library collection