Minuscule 526

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{{New Testament manuscript infobox

| form = Minuscule

| number = 526

| image =

| isize =

| caption=

| name = Codex Baroccianus 59

| sign =

| text = Gospel of Luke-Gospel of John

| script = Greek

| date = 11th century

| found =

| now at = Bodleian Library

| cite =

| size = {{×|21.5|14}}

| type = Byzantine text-type

| cat = V

| hand =

| note = full marginalia

}}

Minuscule 526 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), 610 (Scrivener's numbering), ε 1127 (in the Soden numbering),{{cite book|last=Gregory|first=Caspar René|authorlink=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=67}} is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on a parchment, dated to the 11th century.

The manuscript was adapted for liturgical use. It is lacunose.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Luke 23:38-50; 24:46-53; Gospel of John 1:30-3:5 on 6 parchment leaves (size {{×|21.5|14}}). It is written in one column per page, 21 lines per page.{{Cite book

| last = Aland

| first = K.

| authorlink = 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 = 78

| url =

| doi =

| id =

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

The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (chapters), whose numbers are given the margin and their {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is a division according to the Ammonian Sections (with a Harmony), but there is no references to the Eusebian Canons.{{Cite book

| last = Scrivener

| first = Frederick Henry Ambrose

| authorlink = 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 = 262

| url =

| isbn = }}

It contains the table of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (table of contents) before Gospel of John, It contains a lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), and incipits.{{Cite book

| last = Gregory

| first = Caspar René

| authorlink = Caspar René Gregory

| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments

| publisher = Hinrichs

| year = 1900

| location = Leipzig

| volume = 1

| page = 199

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

| isbn =

}}

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.{{Cite book

| last = Aland

| first = Kurt

| authorlink = Kurt Aland

| last2 = Aland

| first2 = Barbara

| authorlink2 = 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 =

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

Wisse did not examine this manuscript by using his profile method, because it has not in Luke chapters 1, 10, and 20.{{Cite book

| last = Wisse

| first = Frederik

| authorlink =

| 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

| doi =

| isbn = 0-8028-1918-4

| url-access = registration

}}

History

The manuscript has been dated by the INTF on the palaeographical ground to the 11th century.

In the 15th century the manuscript was bound in a book of other matter, on a paper.

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament minuscule manuscripts by F. H. A. Scrivener (610) and C. R. Gregory (526).

The manuscript is currently housed at the Bodleian Library (MS. Barocci 59) in Oxford.

See also

References

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Further reading

  • {{Cite book

| last = Gregory

| first = Caspar René

| authorlink = 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

| isbn =

}}