{{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''663''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 13th century | found = | now at = Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire | cite = | size = {{×|16|11|cm}} | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = }}
'''Minuscule 663''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 387 (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/n81/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=71}}</ref> is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. The manuscript is lacunose.<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. 86.</ref><ref name = INTF>[http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php Handschriftenliste] at the Münster Institute</ref>
== Description ==
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 277 parchment leaves (size {{×|16|11}}),<ref name = Aland/> with only one lacuna (Matthew 26:27-39).<ref name = Gregory/> The text is written in one column per page, 18 lines per page,<ref name = Aland/> in very small letters.<ref name = Gregory/>
It contains lists of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} before each of the Gospels, numbers of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''chapters'') at the margin, the {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (''titles'') at the top of the pages, the Ammonian Sections, references to the Eusebian Canons, and lectionary markings.<ref name = Gregory>{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1 | publisher = Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | page = 210 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n223/mode/2up }}</ref>
== Text ==
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified to the textual family K<sup>x</sup>. 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/n161 139] | url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref>
According to the Wisse's Profile Method it belongs to the textual cluster Cl 121.<ref>{{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/64 64] | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/64 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration }}</ref>
Textually it is close to the Complutensian Polyglot.<ref name = Gregory/>
== History ==
Gregory dated the manuscript to the 13th century.<ref name = Gregory/> Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 13th century.<ref name = INTF/>
The manuscript was presented by Nicephorus Glykas, Bishop of Imbro, to Eduard Reuss.<ref name = Gregory/>
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener. Gregory saw it in 1887.<ref name = Gregory/>
Currently the manuscript is housed at the Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire (Ms. 1907), in Strasbourg.<ref name = Aland/><ref name = INTF/>
== See also ==
{{Portal|Bible}} * List of New Testament minuscules * Biblical manuscript * Textual criticism
== References ==
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== Further reading == * Eduard Reuss, [https://archive.org/details/MN41406ucmf_7 ''Notitia codicis qvattvor evangeliorvm graeci membranacei viris doctis hvcvsqve incogniti qvem in mvseo''], Cambridge 1889.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0663}} Category:Greek New Testament minuscules Category:11th-century biblical manuscripts