Minuscule 837 is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament that is catalogued as number 837 in the Gregory‑Aland list of New Testament manuscripts.
Physical description
- Material: paper.
- Script: Greek minuscule.
- Palaeographic dating: assigned to the 14th century (some sources indicate the early 15th century).
- Layout: the text is written in a single column per page; the number of lines per page is reported to be typical of later minuscules (approximately 20–25).
- Extent: the codex contains the four Gospels. The exact number of surviving folios and the dimensions of the leaves are not uniformly reported in the consulted catalogues.
Contents and features
The manuscript includes the texts of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Marginal markings indicate that the codex was used liturgically; lectionary notes and incipits are present in the margins. No major commentary or extensive catena is recorded as part of the codex.
Textual character
The Greek text of Minuscule 837 is representative of the Byzantine text‑type. In Kurt Aland’s classification system it is placed in Category V, which denotes a manuscript of lesser significance for establishing the original text of the New Testament due to its alignment with the majority text tradition.
Provenance and current location
Published catalogues of Greek New Testament manuscripts list Minuscule 837 as being held in a European research library; however, the precise repository and shelf‑mark differ among sources. The Institute for New Testament Textual Research (INTF) records the manuscript as part of a collection whose present custodial institution is not definitively identified in publicly accessible catalogues.
Scholarly references
- Gregory, Caspar René. Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments. Leipzig: 1908.
- Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara. The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995.
- Institute for New Testament Textual Research (INTF), Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments, 2022 edition.
Notes
While basic bibliographic and textual information about Minuscule 837 is available, detailed codicological data (such as the exact number of folios, page dimensions, and precise current shelf‑mark) are not consistently documented in the major reference works. Consequently, the entry relies on the descriptive information that is uniformly reported across the standard manuscript catalogs.