Minuscule 512

{{New Testament manuscript infobox

| form = Minuscule

| number = 512

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| text = Gospels

| script = Greek

| date = 14th century

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| now at = Christ Church, Oxford

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| size = {{×|24.2|17.5}}

| type = Byzantine text-type

| cat = V

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Minuscule 512 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 441 (in the Soden numbering),{{cite book|last=Gregory|first=Caspar René|author-link=Caspar René Gregory|title=Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament|url=https://archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n77/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=66}} is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th 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 = 77

| isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}

Scrivener labelled it by number 498. The manuscript has complex contents. It was adapted for liturgical use.

Description

The codex contains the complete text of the four Gospels on 210 parchment leaves (size {{×|24.2|17.5}}). It is written in one column per page, 24 lines per page.

The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and some {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages.{{r|Scrivener|Gregory}}

It contains tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (tables of contents) before each Gospel, {{lang|grc|αναγνωσεις}} (lessons), liturgical books with hagiographies (Synaxarion and Menologion), lectionary markings (much of this rubricated), subscriptions at the end of each Gospel with number of {{lang|grc|στιχοι}}, and portraits of the Evangelists.{{Cite book

| last = Gregory

| first = Caspar René

| author-link = Caspar René Gregory

| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes

| publisher = J.C. Hinrichs

| year = 1900

| location = Leipzig

| volume = 1

| page = 198

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n211/mode/2up

}}{{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

| publisher = George Bell & Sons

| year = 1894

| location = London

| edition = 4

| volume = 1

| page = 247

}}

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden included it to the textual family K^x.{{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 = [https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/62 62]

| url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/62

| isbn = 0-8028-1918-4

| url-access = registration

}} Aland placed it in Category V.{{Cite book

| last = Aland

| first = 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 = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n161 139]

| url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt

| url-access = limited

| isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}

According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the K^r in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.{{r|Wisse}}

It lacks the text of Luke 22:43-44.

History

The manuscript was written by Gregorius. Formerly it belonged to the monastery of Nicholas του καλοχωριου. In 1724 it belonged to presbyter Nicholas. The manuscript came to England about 1731 and was presented to archbishop of Canterbury, William Wake, together with minuscules 73, 74, 506-520. Wake presented it to Christ Church in Oxford.{{r|Gregory}}

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament minuscule manuscripts by F. H. A. Scrivener (498) and C. R. Gregory (512). Gregory saw it in 1883.{{r|Gregory}}

It is currently housed at Christ Church (Wake 28) in Oxford.{{r|Aland}}

References

External links

Category:Greek New Testament minuscules

Category:14th-century biblical manuscripts