Minuscule 561
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{{New Testament manuscript infobox
| 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 = {{×|19|13.5}}
| type = Byzantine / mixed
| cat = none
| hand =
| note = marginalia
}}
Minuscule 561 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1289 (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/n79/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=68}} 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 {{×|19|13.5}}). The manuscript was written by many hands. The writing is in one column per page, 21-25 lines per page.{{r|Aland}}
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. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, (no references to the Eusebian Canons).{{r|Gregory}}
It contains Prolegomena, tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (tables of contents) are placed before each Gospel, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.{{r|Scrivener}}{{Cite book
| last = Gregory
| first = Caspar René
| author-link = Caspar René Gregory
| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments
| year = 1900
| location = Leipzig
| volume = 1
| page = [https://archive.org/details/textkritikdesne00greggoog/page/n216 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 = [https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/63 63]
| url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/63
| isbn = 0-8028-1918-4
| url-access = registration
}} Aland did not placed it in any Category.{{Cite book
| 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 = [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 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.{{r|Aland}}
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).{{r|Gregory}} It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (521) and Gregory (561).{{r|Gregory}}
Currently the manuscript is housed at the Glasgow University Library (Ms. Hunter 476) in Glasgow.{{r|Aland}}
See also
References
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Further reading
- Gustavus Haenel, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum qui in bibliothecis Galliae, Helvetiae, Belgii, Britaniae M., Hispaniae, Lusitaniae Asservantur, Lipsiae 1830
- W. H. P. Hatch, Facsimiles and descriptions of minuscule manuscripts of the New Testament (Cambridge, Mass., 1951), LXXI
- Ian C. Cunningham, Greek Manuscripts in Scotland: summary catalogue, with addendum (Edinburgh, 1982), no. 60
External links
- [http://www.csntm.org/Manuscript/View/GA_561 Minuscule 561] at the CSNTM
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Category:Greek New Testament minuscules