Minuscule 581

New Testament manuscripts
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Minuscule 581
Text	Gospels
Date	14th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea
Size	17 cm by 12 cm
Type	Byzantine / mixed
Category	none

Minuscule 581 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 426 (von Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century.^[2] The manuscript has complex contents. It was labeled by Scrivener as 450.^[3]

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 237 parchment leaves (size 17 cm by 12 cm). It is written in one column per page, 21-29 lines per page.^[2]

It contains lists of the κεφαλαια before every Gospel, numerals of the κεφαλαια (chapters) at the margin (in Latin and added by a later hand), the τιτλοι (titles) at the top, the Ammonian sections (in Mark 234 sections, last section in 16:9), lectionary markings, incipits, Synaxarion (Latin Synaxarion were added by a later hand), and Menologion.^[4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a mixture of text-types with a predominate the Byzantine element^{[citation needed]}. According to Hermann von Soden it is close to the textual family Π. Aland did not place it in any Category.^[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Π^a in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It creates textual cluster with the codex Minuscule 2404.^[6]

In the Pericope Adultera, Tommy Wasserman found Family Π to include 581, 1272, 1306, 1571, 1627, 1690, 1699, and 2463.^[7]

History

The manuscript was examined by Dean Burgon. It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener.

The manuscript currently housed in at the Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea (CI. II, 119), at Ferrara.^[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} K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 81.
3. ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 242. 
4. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 205. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n217/mode/2up. 
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. ^ Wisse, Frederik (1982). The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 63. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 
7. ^ Tommy Wasserman, The Patmos Family of New Testament MSS and Its Allies in the Pericope of the Adulteress and Beyond

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig. p. 205. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n217/mode/2up. 

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