Minuscule 535

Minuscule 535 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), 548 (Scrivener), ε 140 (in Soden's numbering),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on a parchment, dated to the 12th century. It was adapted for liturgical use, with full marginalia.

Minuscule 535

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
The first page of Matthew
Text	Gospel of Matthew, Gospel of Mark
Date	12th century
Script	Greek
Now at	University of Michigan
Size	17.5 cm by 13.8 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	full marginalia

The manuscript is very lacunose.

Description

The codex contains an incomplete text of the Gospel of Matthew, Gospel of Mark on 125 parchment leaves (size 17.5 cm by 13.8 cm) with some lacunae (Matthew 11:28-13:33; 18:13-21:15; 21:33-22:10; 24:46-25:22; Mark 3:11-5:31).[2] The text is written in one column per page, 18 lines per page.[3]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, with their τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 233 Sections - the last in 16:8), whose numbers are given at the margin, with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).[2][4] It contains a lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), incipits, Synaxarion, and Menologion.[2][4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[5]

The Lady Burdett-Coutts

History

The manuscript is dated by the INTF on the palaeographical ground to the 11th century.[3]

In 1864 the manuscript was purchased from a dealer at Janina in Epeiros, by Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906), a philanthropist, together with other Greek manuscripts (among them codices 532-546). They were transported to England in 1870-1871.[2] All collection was presented by Burdett-Coutts to Sir Roger Cholmely's School.[6]

It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by F. H. A. Scrivener (548) and C. R. Gregory (535). Gregory saw it in 1883.[2]

Formerly the manuscript was housed at the Highgate (Burdett-Coutts 1. 9), in London.[2]

It was examined and collated by Scrivener.[7]

It is currently housed at the University of Michigan (Ms. 20) in Ann Arbor.[3]

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. 67.
2. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 200.
3. Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 78. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
4. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 254.
5. Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
6. 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.
7. F. H. A. Scrivener, Adversaria critica sacra (Cambridge 1893). (as h)

Further reading

• F. H. A. Scrivewner, Adversaria critica sacra (Cambridge 1893), p. XLI. (as h)
• Kenneth W. Clark, A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America (Chicago, 1937), pp. 288–289.

External links

• Images of the minuscule 535 at the CSNTM