Minuscule 532 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 255 (in Soden's numbering), is a

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of the

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, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. Scrivener labeled it number 545. The manuscript was adapted for liturgical use. It is very incomplete, with many omissions and faded text along with much of it being missing because a missing manuscript contains some of the text.

Description

The codex contains the texts of the four ''

Gospel Gospel originally meant the Christianity, Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the second century Anno domino, AD the term (, from which the English word originated as a calque) came to be used also for the books in which the message w ...

s'' on 249 parchment leaves (size ) with some lacunae (''Matthew'' 13:37-4:4; 22:31-23:4; ''Luke'' 8:3-16; ''John'' 8:1-28; 10:1-12:10; 13:18-34; 14:11-26; 15:24-21:25 are missing). The text is written in one column per page, 22 lines per page. The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numbers are given in the margin, and their (''titles of chapters'') at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, with references to the

Eusebian Canons Eusebian canons, Eusebian sections or Eusebian apparatus, also known as Ammonian sections, are the system of dividing the four Gospels used between late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The divisions into Chapters and verses of the Bible, chapters ...

(written below Ammonian Section numbers). The ''

Epistula ad Carpianum The ''Epistula ad Carpianum'' ("Letter to Carpian") or Letter of Eusebius is the title traditionally given to a letter from Eusebius of Caesarea to a Christian named Carpianus. In this letter, Eusebius explains his ingenious system of gospel harmon ...

'' and the Eusebian tables are included at the beginning of the codex. The tables of the (''tables of contents'') are placed before each Gospel. There are lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), (''lessons''), subscriptions at the end of the Gospel of Luke (only in ''Luke''), with numbers of (in ''Luke''), and portraits of the Evangelists before each Gospel. The

Pericope Adulterae Jesus and the woman taken in adultery (or the ) is a passage (pericope) found in John 7:53–John 8#Pericope adulterae, 8:11 of the New Testament. It is considered by many to be Pseudepigrapha, pseudepigraphical. In the passage, Jesus was t ...

(''John'' 7:53-8:11) is marked with an

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Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the

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classified it as part of the textual family K^x. Aland placed it in Category V. According to the

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it represents the textual family K^x in ''

Luke 1 Luke 1 is the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. With 80 verses, it is one of the longest chapters in the New Testament. This chapter describes the birth of John the Baptist and the events leading up ...

'', ''

Luke 10 Luke 10 is the tenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christianity, Christian Bible. It records the sending of seventy disciples by Jesus, Parable of the Good Samaritan, the famous parable about the Good Samaritan, and his ...

'', and ''

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 ...

''. It also creates the textual cluster 532, as a part of this family. To this cluster belong manuscripts: 532, 1485 and 1632. Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts

History

In 1864 the manuscript was purchased from a dealer at

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, by Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814–1906), a philanthropist, along with other Greek manuscripts (among them codices 533- 546). They were transported to England in 1870-1871. The collection of manuscripts was presented by Burdett-Coutts to Sir Roger Cholmely's School (Burdett-Coutts), 1. 3, in London. It was added to lists of New Testament minuscule manuscripts by F. H. A. Scrivener (545) and

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(532). Gregory saw it in 1883. The manuscript was examined and collated by Scrivener.F. H. A. Scrivener, ''Adversaria critica sacra'' (Cambridge 1893). It is currently housed at the

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(Ms. 22) in

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. There is a second manuscript that has yet to be found but a local university professor called Stuart Carter has said that evidence points to the existence of the second manuscript and it should be treated as a scientific fact.

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Images of the minuscule 532
at the CSNTM {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0532 Greek New Testament minuscules 12th-century biblical manuscripts University of Michigan

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