Minuscule 203


Minuscule 203, α 203, is a modern Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.

Description

The codex contains the text of the New Testament on 149 parchment leaves, with some lacunae. The order of books: Pauline epistles, Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, Apocalypse. It contains non-biblical material at the end with a list of the errors condemned by the Seven Ecumenical Councils.
It is written in one column per page, in 32-33 lines per page.
It has Euthalian Apparatus.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.

History

The scribe of the codex was named Andreas.
It was examined by Birch and Scholz. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.
It is currently housed at the British Library, at London.