Minuscule 554
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Minuscule 554 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 332 (in the Soden numbering),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a Colophon to the year 1271 or 1272.[2] Scrivener labelled it by number 541.[3]
Description
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 230 parchment leaves (size 14.3 cm by 11 cm). The writing is in one column per page, 20-22 lines per page.[2]Template:R/superscript It contains numerals of the Script error: No such module "Lang". at the margin, the Script error: No such module "Lang"., and lectionary markings at the margin.[3]Template:R/superscript[4]
The text of Luke 1:34-56 was supplied by a later hand.[4]Template:R/superscript
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx. Aland placed it in Category V.[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Kx in Luke 10 and Luke 20. In Luke 1 it has mixed Byzantine text.[6]
The Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is omitted.[4]
History
The manuscript was held in the monastery Mar Saba. In 1834 Robert Curzon, Lord Zouche, brought this manuscript to England (along with the codices 548, 552, 554).[3][4] The entire collection of Curzon was bequeathed by his daughter in 1917 to the British Museum, where it had been deposited, by his son, since 1876.[7]
The manuscripts was added to the list of the New Testament minuscule manuscripts by F. H. A. Scrivener (541) and C. R. Gregory (553).[3][4]
The manuscript was examined by Scrivener, Dean Burgon, and Gregory.[4]
It is currently housed at the British Library (Add MS 39597) in London.[2]
See also
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References
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- ↑ Heike Behlmer, ... `As Safe as in the British Museum`: Paul de Lagarde and His Borrowing of Manuscripts from the Collection of Robert Curzon The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology Vol. 89, (2003), pp. 231-238.
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Further reading
- S. Emmel, Catalogue of Materials for Writing, Early Writings on Tablets and Stones, rolled and other Manuscripts and Oriental Manuscript Books, in the Library of the Honourable Robert Curzon (London 1849).
- A. Turyn, Dated Greek Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in the Libraries of Great Britain, Dumbarton Oaks Series XVII (Washington, D.C., 1980); plates pp. 8, 9, 10; description pp. 21–22.
External links
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