Minuscule 576

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Minuscule 576
Text	Gospel of Matthew (22:4-19)
Date	11th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Arundel Castle
Size	25 cm by 15.5 cm
Type	Byzantine
Category	none
Note	unusual readings

Minuscule 576 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1318 (in the Soden numbering),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.^[2] The manuscript is lacunose.

Description

The codex contains only the text of the Gospel of Matthew (22:4-19) on 1 parchment leaves (size 25 cm by 15.5 cm). The text is written in one column per page, in 26 lines per page.^[2]

It contains numerals of the κεφαλαια at the margin (chapters), the τιτλοι (titles), and the Ammonian Sections (not the Eusebian Canons). Lectionary markings and αναγνωσεις (lessons) were added by a later hand.^[3][4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is mixed with a predominate element of the Byzantine text-type. The Greek text of the codex was not placed by Aland in any Category.^[5]

According to Hermann von Soden its text is close to the textual families Π^a and Π^b.^[6]

History

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory.

The manuscript belonged to the same codex as manuscript 435, housed at the Leiden University Library (Gronov. 137) in Leiden, but it was classified as minuscule 576 (Gregory-Aland) before identification with the codex 435.^[2]

Currently it is housed at the Arundel Castle and belongs to the Duke of Norfolk (M.D. 459).^[2]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 68. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n79/mode/2up. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d} Aland, K.; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 72, 81. ISBN 3110119862. 
3. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 204. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n217/mode/2up. 
4. ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 238. 
5. ^ Aland, Kurt; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 133, 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
6. ^ Frederik Wisse, The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke, William B. Eerdmans Publishing, (Grand Rapids, 1982), p. 60.

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig. p. 204. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n217/mode/2up. 

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