Minuscule 586

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Minuscule 586
Text	Gospels
Date	14th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Biblioteca Estense
Size	16.8 cm by 12.5 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Hand	small and neat

Minuscule 586 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 417 (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 is lacunose. It was labeled by Scrivener as 455.^[3]

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 239 leaves (size 16.8 cm by 12.5 cm) with only one lacuna (Matthew 1:1-20). It is written in one column per page, 20 lines per page,^[2] in neat and small hand.

It contains argumentum, lists of the κεφαλαια before every Gospel, numerals of the κεφαλαια at the margin, (not τιτλοι), lectionary markings, incipits, αναγνωσεις (lessons), subscriptions (doubled), στιχοι, Synaxarion, and Menologion.^[4]

There is not a division according to the Ammonian Sections and the Eusebian Canons; without pictures and decorations.^[3] It has one leaf added by a later hand with Gospel Harmony.^[4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K^r.^[5] Aland placed it in Category V.^[6] According to Wisse's Profile Method it represents the textual family K^r in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. It creates cluster with Codex Athous Dionysiou.^[5]

History

The manuscript currently housed in at the Biblioteca Estense (G. 5, α M 9. 14 (II A 5)), at Modena.^[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. ^ ^{a b} 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. 243. 
4. ^ ^{a b} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 205. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n217/mode/2up. 
5. ^ ^{a b} 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. 
6. ^ 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. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 

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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