Minuscule 521 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 443 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek

minuscule Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (or more formally ''minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing ...

manuscript of the New Testament, on a parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1321 or 1322. Scrivener labelled it by number 562. The manuscript has complex context.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 271 parchment leaves (size ). It is written in one column per page, 20 lines per page. The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numbers are placed at the margin, but there are not their (''titles of chapters'') at the top or bottom. There is no division according to the Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons. The tables of the (''tables of contents'') are placed before each Gospel, it contains lectionary markings at the margin, incipits, (''lessons''),

Synaxarion Synaxarion or Synexarion (plurals Synaxaria, Synexaria; el, Συναξάριον, from συνάγειν, ''synagein'', "to bring together"; cf. etymology of ''synaxis'' and ''synagogue''; Latin: ''Synaxarium'', ''Synexarium''; cop, ⲥⲩⲛⲁ ...

Menologion Menologium (), also written menology, and menologe, is a service-book used in the Eastern Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite. From its derivation from Greek , ''menológion'', from μήν ''m� ...

, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, and numbered .

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type.

Hermann von Soden Baron Hermann von Soden (16 August 1852 – 15 January 1914) was a German Biblical scholar, minister, professor of divinity, and textual theorist. Life Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 16, 1852, Soden was educated at the University of Tübinge ...

classified it to the textual family K^r. Aland placed it in Category V. According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents K^r in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It creates textual subgroup with the codex 35.

History

The manuscript was bought by book-dealer Payne (?), from London. Then it belonged to Thomas Thorpe, another book-dealer in London. It was sold in 1824 to Theodore Williams, Vicar of Hendon, for £120 (about £ today). Joseph Mendham bought it for £70 in 1827.''Catalogue of the Law Society's Mendham Collection, lent to the University of Kent at Canterbury and housed in Canterbury Cathedral Library.'' Completed and edited by Sheila Hingley and David Shaw from the catalogue of Helen Carron and others. The Law Society, London, 1994. cliv, 500p. pp. cxl–cxli. It was given by Mendham's widow to Dean Burgon, afterwards to the Bodleian Library. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament minuscule manuscripts by Scrivener (562) and

C. R. Gregory C. or c. may refer to: * Century, sometimes abbreviated as ''c.'' or ''C.'', a period of 100 years * Cent (currency), abbreviated ''c.'' or ''¢'', a monetary unit that equals of the basic unit of many currencies * Caius or Gaius, abbreviated as ...

(521). It is currently housed at the

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(MS. Gr. bib. d. 1) in Oxford.

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