Since the time of
J. J. Wettstein the minuscules manuscripts have been indicated by Arabic numerals, but the numbers in each of the four groups of the books of the New Testament began with 1, and thus "1" might indicate a book in any of the manuscripts (f.e. 1eap, 1r, 2e, 2ap). Different parts of the same manuscript had different numbers (f.e. 18evv, 113Acts, 132Paul, and 51Apoc belonged to the same manuscript). Only the first manuscript situation was simple, because it had number 1 in Gospels (1e), in Acts and Catholic epistles (1a), and in Pauline epistles (1p). This system was complicated.
Scrivener, for instance, enumerated known for him minuscule codices: • Gospels .... 739 • Acts and Catholic epistles .... 261 • Pauline epistles .... 338 • Apocalypse .... 122 It did not mean that the total number of minuscules was 1460, because some of them belonged to the same manuscripts. Wettstein's system was improved and corrected by F. H. A. Scrivener,
C. R. Gregory, and other scholars.
Aland renumbered minuscule manuscripts (1r received number 2814, 2ap received 2815, 4ap received 2816 etc.), and now every minuscule manuscript has a different catalogue number. Renumbered minuscules: • 1r received number 2814, • 2ap received 2815, • 4ap received 2816, • 7p received 2817, • 36a received 2818, • 753b received 2819, • 753c received 2820, • 60r received 2821, • 1274bap received 2822, • 1352bap received 2824, • 1674bap received 2825, • 1674cap received 2826, • 1674dap received 2827, • 1681bap received 2828, • 1755bap received 2829, • 1755cap received 2830, • 2306bap received 2831, • 2306cap received 2832, • 2306dap received 2833, • 2306eap received 2834, •
ℓ 1891ap received 2835. Wettstein knew 112 minuscule codices of the Gospels, 58 of the Acts, 60 of St. Paul, and 28 of the Apocalypse. Manuscripts of the Gospels with number 260–469 were added to the list by
Scholz (1794–1852). Gregory in 1908 knew 2292 all minuscule manuscripts of the New Testament. , there are currently 2911 minuscule codices catalogued by the
Institute for New Testament Textual Research (INTF) in
Münster. == Lists of New Testament minuscules ==