Minuscule 546
New Testament manuscript | |
Text | Gospels † |
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Date | 13th century |
Script | Greek |
Now at | University of Michigan |
Size | 15.5 cm by 11 cm |
Type | Byzantine text-type |
Category | V |
Note | bad condition incomplete marginalia |
Minuscule 546 (in the
The manuscript has survived in bad condition and some parts of it were lost. It is housed at the University of Michigan.
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 276 thick parchment leaves (size 15.5 cm by 11 cm) with some lacunae at the beginning and end (John 18:30–21:25).[2] It has no covers.[3] The manuscript has survived in bad condition and many of its leaves were misplaced in binding.[4][5]
The text is written in one column per page, 22 lines per page.[2] The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numerals are given at the margin, and the τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages.[5] There is no a division according to the smaller
It contains tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, and portrait of the John Evangelist before the Gospel of John.[5][6] The other portraits probably were cut out. There are the decorated head-pieces at the beginning of each Gospel.[4] The list of the κεφαλαια to Matthew is not complete, it begins with the 52nd κεφαλαιον. The list of the κεφαλαια are complete before the other Gospels. The portrait of Saint John is defaced.[3]
The nomina sacra are contracted in a usual way.[7]
- Errors
There are no signs of
There are 21 omissions by
Errors of
It reads μελλει for μελει twice; always κυλος.[4]
The only Alexandrian forms are τριχαν in Matthew 5:36; καθηκουν in Luke 5:19; ουτω is found 13 times.[4]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the
- Textual variants
The words before the bracket is the reading of the Textus Receptus.
- Matthew 2:22 — επι (upon) ] omitted
- Matthew 3:11 — και πυρι (and fire) ] omitted
- Matthew 3:13 — επι (upon) ] προς (toward)
- Matthew 3:15 — ημιν (us) ] omit
- Matthew 6:1 — προσεχετε (pray) ] προσεχετε δε
- Matthew 6:8 — υμων ] ημων
- Matthew 23:8— καθηγητης (leader) ] διδασκαλος (teacher)
- Matthew 23:14— των ουρανων (of heavens) ] του θυ (of God)
- Mark 10:30 — μητερας ] πρα και μρα (father and mother)
- Mark 11:4 — omit ] προς την θυραν (to the doors)
- Luke 22:18 — omit ] απο του νυν (from now)[10]
History
The manuscript is dated by the
The manuscript was presented by Burdett-Coutts to Sir Roger Cholmely's School, and was housed at the Highgate (Burdett-Coutts III. 41), in London.[14] In 1922 it was acquired for the University of Michigan.[15] It is currently housed at the University of Michigan (Ms. 27) in Ann Arbor.[2][11]
It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by
See also
- List of New Testament minuscules
- Biblical manuscript
- Textual criticism
References
- ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 67.
- ^ ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
- ^ a b c d Scrivener, F. H. A. (1893). Adversaria Critica Sacra: With a Short Explanatory Introduction. Cambridge: At The University Press. p. LVIII.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener, Adversaria Critica Sacra: With a Short Explanatory Introduction (Cambridge, 1893), p. LVIX.
- ^ a b c d 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. 255.
- ^ a b c Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 201.
- ^ Kenneth W. Clark, A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America (Chicago, 1937), p. 301.
- ^ ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
- ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ Scrivener, F. H. A. (1893). Adversaria Critica Sacra: With a Short Explanatory Introduction. Cambridge: At The University Press. pp. LIX–LXIII.
- ^ a b "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
- ISBN 0-8265-1256-9.
- ^ Robert Mathiesen, An Important Greek Manuscript Rediscovered and Redated (Codex Burdett-Coutts III.42), The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 76, No. 1 (Jan., 1983), pp. 131–133.
- ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1893). Adversaria Critica Sacra: With a Short Explanatory Introduction. Cambridge: At The University Press. pp. VIII, 61–162.
- ^ Kenneth W. Clark, A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America (Chicago, 1937), p. 294.
- ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1893). Adversaria Critica Sacra: With a Short Explanatory Introduction. Cambridge: At The University Press. pp. LXIII.
- ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1893). Adversaria Critica Sacra: With a Short Explanatory Introduction. Cambridge: At The University Press. pp. LVIII–LXIII, 61–162.
Further reading
- Scrivener, F. H. A. (1893). Adversaria Critica Sacra: With a Short Explanatory Introduction. Cambridge: At The University Press. pp. LVIII–LXIII, 61–162. (as r)
- Kenneth W. Clark, A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America (Chicago, 1937), pp. 300–302.
External links
- Images of the minuscule 546 at the CSNTM