Minuscule 565


Minuscule 565, ε 93, also known as the Empress Theodora's Codex, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on purple parchment, dated palaeographically to the 9th century. It was labelled by Scrivener as 473.
The manuscript is lacunose. It has marginalia.

Description

The codex is one of only two known purple minuscules written with gold ink. It contains the text of the four Gospels on 405 purple parchment leaves lacunae. The text is written in one column per page, 17 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, whose number are given at the margin, and the τιτλοι at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections. There are no references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains the Eusebian tables. Tables of the κεφαλαια are placed before every Gospel. It has the famous Jerusalem Colophon.
The manuscript is similar to Beratinus 2.

Text

The Greek text of the codex, has been understood as a representative of the so-called Caesarean text-type. Aland placed it in Category III. In Gospel of Mark this manuscript is closely aligned to Codex Koridethi. According to Aland the quality of the text is higher in Gospel of Mark, and lower in Matthew and Luke. In John manuscript 565 is a member of Family 1.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the Alexandrian text in Luke 1 and Kx in Luke 10 and Luke 20.
In John 1:29 it lacks ο Ιωαννης along with manuscripts Sinaiticus, Alexandrinus, Vaticanus, Cyprius, Campianus, Petropolitanus Purpureus, Vaticanus 354, Nanianus, Macedoniensis, Sangallensis, Koridethi, Petropolitanus, Athous Lavrensis, 045, 047, 0141, 8, 9, 1192;
In John 14:14 the entire verse is omitted along with the manuscripts: X f1 1009 1365 ℓ 76 ℓ 253 b vgmss syrs, pal arm geo Diatessaron.
It lacks the Pericope Adulterae, with an explanatory note.

History

The manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 9th century.
The manuscript comes from the area of the Black Sea, in Pontus.
In 1829 it was brought to Petersburg. The manuscript was examined and described by Eduard de Muralt. The text of Mark was edited in 1885 by Johannes Engebretsen Belsheim.
The codex now is located at the Russian National Library at Saint Petersburg.