Minuscule 546

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 276 thick parchment leaves (size {{×|15.5|11}}) with some lacunae at the beginning and end (John 18:30–21:25). It has no covers. The manuscript has survived in bad condition and many of its leaves were misplaced in binding.Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener, [https://archive.org/stream/adversariacriti00scrigoog#page/n64/mode/2up Adversaria Critica Sacra: With a Short Explanatory Introduction] (Cambridge, 1893), p. LVIX.

The text is written in one column per page, 22 lines per page.{{Cite book

| last = Aland

| first = Kurt

| 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 = 79

| isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }} The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (chapters), whose numerals are given at the margin, and the {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages.{{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 = 255

}}

There is no a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections; it was not prepared for liturgical reading.{{Cite book |last=Scrivener |first=F. H. A. |author-link=Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |title=Adversaria Critica Sacra: With a Short Explanatory Introduction |url=https://archive.org/stream/adversariacriti00scrigoog#page/n64/mode/2up |year=1893 |publisher=At The University Press |location=Cambridge |page=LVIII }}

It contains tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (tables of contents) before each Gospel, and portrait of the John Evangelist before the Gospel of John.{{Cite book

| last = Gregory

| first = Caspar René

| author-link = Caspar René Gregory

| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments

| publisher = Hinrichs

| year = 1900

| location = Leipzig

| volume = 1

| page = 201

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n213/mode/2up}} The other portraits probably were cut out. There are the decorated head-pieces at the beginning of each Gospel. The list of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} to Matthew is not complete, it begins with the 52nd {{lang|grc|κεφαλαιον}}. The list of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} are complete before the other Gospels. The portrait of Saint John is defaced.

The nomina sacra are contracted in a usual way.Kenneth W. Clark, A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America (Chicago, 1937), p. 301.

; Errors

There are no signs of iota adscript or iota subscript. N εφελκυστικον is met with 63 times.

There are 21 omissions by homoioteleuton (Matthew 1:12; 5:22; 7:10.19; 10:33; 12:31; 18:18; 19:9; Mark 10:34; 11:28; 13:20; 14:46; 15:41; Luke 7:20; 22:30; John 7:28; 9:32; 12:34; 17:18; 18:7).

Errors of iotacism are 387 (the first hand), some of them were corrected by a later hand. Scrivener enumerated all errors of the first hand: η for ι (28), ι for η (17), ε for αι (15), αι for ε (22), η for ει (54), ει for η (37), ι for ει (43), ει for ι (10), ω for ο (62), ο for ω (52), η for ε (4), ε for η (16), η for υ (5); υ for η (4), besides ημεις and υμεις interchanged 24 times; ω for ου (5), ου for ω (1); η for οι (10); οι for η (5); οι for υ (2); ι for υ (4); ει for υ (1); οι for ι (4). The augmentum is omitted five times (Matthew 18:23.28; 27:44; Luke 5:13; 7:41; John 1:20).

It reads μελλει for μελει twice; always κυλος.

The only Alexandrian forms are {{lang|grc|τριχαν}} in Matthew 5:36; {{lang|grc|καθηκουν}} in Luke 5:19; ουτω is found 13 times.

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The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to A^k, related to the Antiocheian commentated text (Antiocheian = Byzantine).{{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 the Greek text of the codex 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 = 139

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

According to the Claremont Profile Method, it forms a textual group with the codex 1167, in Luke 1; Luke 10; Luke 20.

; Textual variants

The words before the bracket is the reading of the Textus Receptus.

: Matthew 2:22 — {{lang|grc|επι}} (upon) ] omitted

: Matthew 3:11 — {{lang|grc|και πυρι}} (and fire) ] omitted

: Matthew 3:13 — {{lang|grc|επι}} (upon) ] {{lang|grc|προς}} (toward)

: Matthew 3:15 — {{lang|grc|ημιν}} (us) ] omit

: Matthew 6:1 — {{lang|grc|προσεχετε}} (pray) ] {{lang|grc|προσεχετε δε}}

: Matthew 6:8 — {{lang|grc|υμων}} ] {{lang|grc|ημων}}

: Matthew 23:8 — {{lang|grc|καθηγητης}} (leader) ] {{lang|grc|διδασκαλος}} (teacher)

: Matthew 23:14 — {{lang|grc|των ουρανων}} (of heavens) ] {{lang|grc|του}} θυ (of God)

: Mark 10:30 — {{lang|grc|μητερας}} ] πρα και μρα (father and mother)

: Mark 11:4 — omit ] {{lang|grc|προς την θυραν}} (to the doors)

: Luke 22:18 — omit ] {{lang|grc|απο του νυν}} (from now){{Cite book |last=Scrivener |first=F. H. A. |author-link=Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |title=Adversaria Critica Sacra: With a Short Explanatory Introduction |url=https://archive.org/stream/adversariacriti00scrigoog#page/n64/mode/2up |year=1893 |publisher=At The University Press |location=Cambridge |pages=LIX-LXIII }}

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The manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 13th century.{{r|Aland}}{{Cite web|url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=30546|title= Liste Handschriften|publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research|access-date=7 October 2011|location=Münster}} The early history of the manuscript is unknown. In 1864, the manuscript was in the possession of a dealer at Janina in Epeiros. It was then purchased from him by a representative of Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814–1906), a philanthropist,{{cite book|last=Parker|first=Franklin|title=George Peabody, a biography|publisher=Vanderbilt University Press|date=1995|pages=107|isbn=0-8265-1256-9}} together with other Greek manuscripts (among them codices 532–545). They were transported to England in 1870–1871.Robert Mathiesen, [https://www.jstor.org/pss/1509440 An Important Greek Manuscript Rediscovered and Redated (Codex Burdett-Coutts III.42)], The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 76, No. 1 (Jan., 1983), pp. 131–133.

The manuscript was presented by Burdett-Coutts to Sir Roger Cholmely's School, and was housed at the Highgate (Burdett-Coutts III. 41), in London.{{Cite book |last=Scrivener |first=Frederick Henry Ambrose |author-link=Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |title=Adversaria Critica Sacra: With a Short Explanatory Introduction |url=https://archive.org/stream/adversariacriti00scrigoog#page/n16/mode/2up |year=1893 |publisher=At The University Press |location=Cambridge |pages=VIII, 61–162 }} In 1922 it was acquired for the University of Michigan.Kenneth W. Clark, A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America (Chicago, 1937), p. 294. It is currently housed at the University of Michigan (Ms. 27) in Ann Arbor.{{r|Aland|INTF}}

It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by F. H. A. Scrivener (559) and C. R. Gregory (546). Gregory saw it in 1883. It was examined by Dean Burgon, who described it in his The Revision Revised.{{Cite book |last=Scrivener |first=Frederick Henry Ambrose |author-link=Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |title=Adversaria Critica Sacra: With a Short Explanatory Introduction |url=https://archive.org/stream/adversariacriti00scrigoog#page/n68/mode/2up |year=1893 |publisher=At The University Press |location=Cambridge |pages=LXIII }} Scrivener examined and collated its text. His collation was edited posthumously in 1893.{{Cite book |last=Scrivener |first=Frederick Henry Ambrose |author-link=Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |title=Adversaria Critica Sacra: With a Short Explanatory Introduction |url=https://archive.org/stream/adversariacriti00scrigoog#page/n64/mode/2up |year=1893 |publisher=At The University Press |location=Cambridge |pages=LVIII-LXIII, 61–162 }}

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• {{Cite book |last=Scrivener |first=F. H. A. |author-link=Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |title=Adversaria Critica Sacra: With a Short Explanatory Introduction |url=https://archive.org/stream/adversariacriti00scrigoog#page/n64/mode/2up |year=1893 |publisher=At The University Press |location=Cambridge |pages=LVIII-LXIII, 61–162 }} (as r)
• Kenneth W. Clark, A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America (Chicago, 1937), pp. 300–302.

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