Minuscule 573


Minuscule 573, ε 447, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Using the study of comparative writing styles, it has been assigned to the 13th century CE.
The manuscript has complex contents.

Description

The manuscript is a codex containing the text of the four Gospels on 189 parchment leaves. The writing is in one column per page, 29 lines per page.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is considered a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Biblical scholar Hermann von Soden classified it to his group A, related to the Antiocheian commentated text. Biblical scholar Kurt Aland placed it in Categories of [New Testament manuscripts#Category V|Category V] of his New Testament manuscript classification system.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.

History

The manuscript was written in time of Andronikos II Palaiologos.
It was bought from Athens in 1884 along with the codex 531. It was examined and described by William Charles Braithwaite.
The manuscript is currently housed in the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.