Minuscule 522

The codex contains the entire of the New Testament on 319 paper leaves ({{Convert|23|×|16.5|cm|abbr=on}}) with only one lacuna in the Apocalypse 2:11-23. The order of books: Gospels, Pauline epistles (Philemon, Hebrews), Acts, Catholic epistles, and Apocalypse.The same order has Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Fuldensis, minuscule 61, and Epiphanius. The scribe was unfamiliar with Greek.

The text written in one column per page, 25 lines per page. The breathings and accents are given correctly with very few exceptions.

The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin (added by later hand in Latin), and their {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. The text of the Gospels has also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons.

The tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (tables of contents) are placed before each of book, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), incipits, {{lang|grc|αναγνωσεις}} (lessons), Synaxarion, Menologion, and some pictures.{{Cite book

| last = Gregory

| first = Caspar René

| author-link = Caspar René Gregory

| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments

| publisher = J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung

| year = 1900

| location = Leipzig

| volume = 1

| page = 199

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

}}

It has Oecumenius and Euthalius prolegomena.{{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 = 246

}}

; Errors

In Apocalypse, there were 13 instances of errors by homoioteleuton, errors of itacism are few. N ephelkystikon before a consonant 3 times, 2 times it lacks before hiatus.{{Cite book |last=Scrivener |first=Frederick Henry Ambrose |author-link= Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |title=An Exact Transcript of the Codex Augiensis |url=https://archive.org/stream/anexacttranscri00paulgoog#page/n6/mode/2up |year=1859 |publisher=Deighton Bell & Co. |location=Cambridge |page= 76 }}

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type except Acts and Catholic epistles. Aland placed it in Category V. The text of the Acts and Catholic epistles Aland placed in III Category.{{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/n155 133]

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

| url-access = limited

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

Wisse did not examine this manuscript by using his profile method.{{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

}}

It has some peculiar readings in Book of Revelation.{{Cite book |last=Scrivener |first=Frederick Henry Ambrose |author-link= Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |title=An Exact Transcript of the Codex Augiensis |url=https://archive.org/stream/anexacttranscri00paulgoog#page/n6/mode/2up |year=1859 |publisher=Deighton Bell & Co. |location=Cambridge |page= 75}}

According to the note on folio 319 the manuscript was written in Mirandola in 1515 (or 1516) for the wish Giovanni Francesco Picus of Mirandola by Michael Damascenus from Crete. The manuscript once belonged to M. Aloys. Canonici, together with the manuscripts 523, 524, and 525, then to Bandinelli from Venice, and in 1817 was acquired by the Bodleian Library.

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament minuscule manuscripts by Scrivener (488) and Gregory (522). Gregory saw it in 1883. It was examined, described, and collated by Scrivener.{{Cite book |last=Scrivener |first=Frederick Henry Ambrose |author-link= Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |title=An Exact Transcript of the Codex Augiensis |url=https://archive.org/stream/anexacttranscri00paulgoog#page/n6/mode/2up |year=1859 |publisher=Deighton Bell & Co. |location=Cambridge |pages= 75–76}} (as k)

It is currently housed at the Bodleian Library (MS. Canon. Gr. 34) in Oxford.

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{{Reflist}}

• {{Cite book |last=Scrivener |first=Frederick Henry Ambrose |author-link= Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |title=An Exact Transcript of the Codex Augiensis |url=https://archive.org/stream/anexacttranscri00paulgoog#page/n6/mode/2up |year=1859 |publisher=Deighton Bell & Co. |location=Cambridge |pages= 75–76}} (as k)
• Herman C. Hoskier, Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse (London 1929), vol. 1, p. 297 (only of Revelation)

• [http://www.skypoint.com/members/waltzmn/Manuscripts501-1000.html#m522 Minuscule 522] at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism

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