Minuscule 522 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 145 (in the Soden numbering), is a

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of the

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, on a paper. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1515 or 1516. Scrivener labelled it by number 488. It was adapted for liturgical use.

Description

The codex contains the entire of the

on 319 paper leaves () with only one lacuna in the

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2:11-23. The order of books: Gospels, Pauline epistles (Philemon, Hebrews), Acts, Catholic epistles, and Apocalypse. The scribe was unfamiliar with Greek. The text written in one column per page, 25 lines per page. The breathings and accents are given correctly with very few exceptions. The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin (added by later hand in Latin), and their (''titles of chapters'') at the top of the pages. The text of the Gospels has also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the

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. The tables of the (''tables of contents'') are placed before each of book, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), incipits, (''lessons''),

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, and some pictures. It has Oecumenius and Euthalius prolegomena. ; Errors In Apocalypse, there were 13 instances of errors by

homoioteleuton Homeoteleuton, also spelled homoeoteleuton and homoioteleuton (from the Greek , ''homoioteleuton'', "like ending"), is the repetition of endings in words. Homeoteleuton is also known as near rhyme. History Homeoteleuton (homoioteleuton) was first ...

, errors of itacism are few. N ephelkystikon before a consonant 3 times, 2 times it lacks before hiatus.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the

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except Acts and Catholic epistles. Aland placed it in Category V. The text of the Acts and Catholic epistles Aland placed in III Category. Wisse did not examine this manuscript by using his profile method. It has some peculiar readings in Book of Revelation.

History

According to the note on folio 319 the manuscript was written in

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in 1515 (or 1516) for the wish Giovanni Francesco Picus of Mirandola by Michael Damascenus from Crete. The manuscript once belonged to M. Aloys. Canonici, together with the manuscripts 523, 524, and 525, then to Bandinelli from Venice, and in 1817 was acquired by the Bodleian Library. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament minuscule manuscripts by

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(488) and Gregory (522). Gregory saw it in 1883. It was examined, described, and collated by Scrivener. (as k) It is currently housed at the

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(MS. Canon. Gr. 34) in

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Minuscule 522
at the ''Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0522 Greek New Testament minuscules 16th-century biblical manuscripts Bodleian Library collection

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