Minuscule 561
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| form = Minuscule | number = 561 | image = Minuscule_561_GA_0087a.JPG | isize = 200 | caption= Folio 87 recto, the first page of Mark | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 13th century | found = | now at = Glasgow University Library | cite = | size = | type = Byzantine / mixed | cat = none | hand = | note = marginalia
Minuscule 561 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1289 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = K. | author-link = Kurt Aland |author2=M. Welte |author3=B. Köster |author4=K. Junack | title = Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments | publisher = Walter de Gruyter | year = 1994 | location = Berlin, New York | page = 80 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }} Scrivener labelled it by number 521.{{Cite book | last = Scrivener | first = Frederick Henry Ambrose | author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |author2=Edward Miller | title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1 | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1894 | location = London | edition = 4 | page = 250
The manuscript has complex contents. It has marginalia.
Description
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 290 parchment leaves (size ). The manuscript was written by many hands. The writing is in one column per page, 21-25 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numerals are given at the margin, and the τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, (no references to the Eusebian Canons).
It contains Prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) are placed before each Gospel, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 203 | url = https://archive.org/details/textkritikdesne00greggoog
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified to the textual family Kx.{{Cite book | last = Wisse | first = Frederik | title = The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1982 | location = Grand Rapids | page = 63 | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/63 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration | last1 = Aland | first1 = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland | last2 = Aland | first2 = Barbara | author-link2 = Barbara Aland | others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) | title = The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1995 | location = Grand Rapids | page = 139 | url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Kx in Luke 1, Luke 10. In Luke 20 it has mixed Byzantine text.
History
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According to the INTF it was written in the 13th-century.
The manuscript was written in Italy. It once belonged to Brian Walton in 1656. It was in Caesar de Missy's collection in London in 1748 (along with the codex 560, ℓ 162, ℓ 239). It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (521) and Gregory (561).
Currently the manuscript is housed at the Glasgow University Library (Ms. Hunter 476) in Glasgow.
References
References
- Gregory, Caspar René. (1908). "Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament". J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung.
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