Minuscule 592

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Minuscule 592
Text	New Testament (except Rev.)
Date	1289
Script	Greek
Now at	Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Size	16.5 cm by 12 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V

Minuscule 592 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 567 (von Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper, dated by a Colophon to the year 1289.^[2] The manuscript has complex contents. It was labelled by Scrivener as 461.^[3] Gregory labelled the manuscript by 592^e, 207^a, and 263^p.

Description

The codex contains the text of the New Testament except Book of Revelation on 295 paper leaves (size 16.5 cm by 12 cm). It is written in one column per page, 28-32 lines per page.^[2] It was written by many hands.

It contains the lists of the κεφαλαια, numerals of the κεφαλαια (chapters), the τιτλοι (titles), the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 237 – 16:15), (not the Eusebian Canons), Synaxarion, Menologion, subscriptions, ρηματα, στιχοι, pictures, and Euthalian Apparatus.^[4] The order of books: Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles, Synaxarion, and Gospels.^[3] It contains an additional material about the councils.^[4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family K^x in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.^[6]

History

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

The manuscript currently is housed at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Z. 34 sup.), at Milan.^[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. 69. 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. 206. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n219/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. 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. 

Further reading

• A. Turyn, Dated Greek Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in the Libraries of Italy, (Urbana, 1972), 45; description pp. 61-62.

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