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Minuscule 531 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 278 (in Soden's numbering), is a
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of the
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, on a parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. It was adapted for liturgical use.
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are incomplete. The manuscript is lacunose.


Description

The codex contains the text of the
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and
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on 96 parchment leaves (size ) with a large
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at the end of Luke (Luke 17:36-fin.). The text is written in one column per page, 21 lines per page. The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections, whose numbers are given at the margin, with references to the
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. There is also a lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use).


Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the
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.
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 ...
included it to the textual family Kx. Aland placed it in Category V. According to the
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it belongs to the textual family Kx in
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and
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. In
Luke 20 Luke 20 is the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the teaching of Jesus Christ in the temple in Jerusalem, especially his responses to questions raised by the Pharisees and Sadducees.Hal ...
no profile was made because of defect of the codex.


History

The manuscript was bought in Athens in 1884 along with the codex
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. It was examined by
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.
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did not see it. The manuscript is currently housed in the Cadbury Research Library,
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(Braithwaite Greek MS 1).


See also

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List of New Testament minuscules The list of New_Testament_minuscule, New Testament Minuscules ordered by Gregory–Aland index number is divided into three sections: * List of New Testament minuscules (1–1000) * List of New Testament minuscules (1001–2000) * List of New Test ...
*
Biblical manuscript A biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. Biblical manuscripts vary in size from tiny scrolls containing individual verses of the Jewish scriptures (see '' Tefillin'') to huge polyglot codices (multi- ...
*
Textual criticism Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts (mss) or of printed books. Such texts may rang ...


References


Further reading

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0531 Greek New Testament minuscules 12th-century biblical manuscripts