{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''708''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels † | script = Greek | date = 11th century | found = | now at = Bodleian Library | cite = | size = {{×|19|15}} | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = family K<sup>x</sup> }}

'''Minuscule 708''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε153 (von Soden),<ref name = Soden>Hermann von Soden, ''Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte'' (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 142.</ref><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/n83/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=73}}</ref> is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. The manuscript is lacunose.<ref name = Aland>{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = K. | author-link = Kurt Aland |author2=M. Welte |author3=B. Köster |author4=K. Junack | title = Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments | publisher = Walter de Gruyter | year = 1994 | location = Berlin, New York | page = 89 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}</ref><ref name = INTF>[http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php Handschriftenliste] at the Münster Institute</ref> Scrivener labelled it as 607<sup>e</sup>.<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, vol. 1 | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1894 | location = London | edition = 4 | page = 261 }}</ref>

== Description ==

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 200 parchment leaves (size {{×|19|15}}),<ref name = Aland/><ref name = Gregory>{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1 | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | page = 214 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n227/mode/2up }}</ref> with one lacuna in text (Matthew 20:15-24:22).<ref name = Scrivener/>

The text is written in one column per page, 30 lines per page.<ref name = Aland/> It has ornamental headpieces.

It contains the Eusebian Canon tables at the beginning, the lists of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} are placed before each Gospel.<ref name = Gregory/>

The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''chapters''), which numbers are given the left margin, and their {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (''titles'') at the top; there is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with a references to the Eusebian Canons. It contains portraits of the Evangelists (Mark as eagle, John as lion).<ref name = Gregory/><ref name = Scrivener/>

== 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 | last1 = Aland | first1 = 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/n161 139] | url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref>

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents mixed Byzantine text in Luke 1 and textual family K<sup>x</sup> in 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 | page = [https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/65 65] | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/65 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration }}</ref>

== History ==

Scrivener and Gregory dated the manuscript to the 11th century.<ref name = Gregory/> Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 11th century.<ref name="INTF"/>

The manuscript was held n Constantinople, where was bought in 1882.<ref name = Gregory/>

It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (607) and Gregory (708). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1883.<ref name = Gregory/>

At present the manuscript is housed at the Bodleian Library (MS. Auct. T. inf. 1. 3) in Oxford.<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 == * Kurt Weitzmann & George Galavaris, ''The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai. The illuminated Greek manuscripts, vol. I: From the ninth to the twelfth century'', Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1990, p.&nbsp;81 n. 2

== External links == * [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/medieval/auctarium/auctarium.html MSS. Auctarium] at the Bodleian Library

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