Minuscule 63

{{short description|Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament}} {{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''63''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = Ussher 1 | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 10th century | found = | now at = Trinity College | cite = | size = {{×|31.8|24}} | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = marginalia }}

'''Minuscule 63''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A 118 (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> formerly known as ''Ussher 1'', is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 10th 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. 50.</ref> It has marginalia.

== Description ==

The codex contains almost complete text of the four Gospels on 237 parchment leaves (size {{×|31.8|24}}) with only one small lacunae.<ref name = Aland/> The text is written in one column per page, 18-24 lines per page. The initial letters are written in red. It contains commentaries written in 48-52 lines per page.<ref name = Gregory>{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 143 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n155/mode/2up }}</ref>

The text is divided according to the numbers of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (''titles'') at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (Matt 355; Mark 234; Luke 342; John 241), whose numbers are given at the margin, with references to Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).<ref name = Gregory/>

It contains Prolegomena, tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel, Synaxarion, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, and pictures.<ref name = Gregory/><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 | pages = 200–201 }}</ref>

The last leaf, containing John 21:25, was lost.<ref name = Scrivener/> Folio IV belongs to the lectionary 454 (Gregory-Aland).<ref name = Aland/>

== Text ==

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. 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> It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.<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] | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/54 }}</ref>

The Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is omitted.<ref name = Gregory/><ref>Kurt Aland, "Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum. Locis parallelis evangeliorum apocryphorum et patrum adhibitis edidit", Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1996, p. XXVII.</ref>

== History ==

The manuscript once belonged to Ussher (along with codex 61).<ref name = Scrivener/>

A few extracts were contributed by Henry Dodwell, just like 64, to Bishop Fell's New Testament of 1675.<ref name = Scrivener/> It was examined by Richard Bulkeley for Mill, Dobbin (in 1855), and John Twycrosse (1858).<ref name = Scrivener/> C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.<ref name = Gregory/>

It is currently housed in Trinity College (Ms. 31, fol. 1-237), in Dublin.<ref name = Aland/>

== References ==

== Further reading ==

* {{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 143 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n155/mode/2up }}

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