Minuscule 533 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 256 (in Soden's numbering), is a Greek

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manuscript of the New Testament, on a parchment, dated to the 13th century. It was adapted for liturgical use;

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are incomplete. Scrivener labelled it by number 546. The manuscript is lacunose.

Description

The codex contains an incomplete text of the four Gospels on 237 parchment leaves (size ) with some lacunae (Matthew 1:1-9:13; Luke 1:1-15; John 21:1-16). The text is written in one column per page, 20 lines per page. The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their (''titles of chapters'') at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 241 Sections - the last in 16:20), but without references to the Eusebian Canons. The tables of the (''tables of contents'') are placed before each Gospel. It contains lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), incipits, and iambic verses.

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^x. Aland placed it in Category V. According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual cluster

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in Luke 1 (fragmentary), Luke 10, and Luke 20. Wisse did not assign cluster 121 to the family K^x. Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts

History

The manuscript is dated by the

INTF The Institute for New Testament Textual Research (german: Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung — INTF) at the University of Münster, Westphalia, Germany, is to research the textual history of the New Testament and to reconstruct its G ...

on the palaeographical ground to the 13th century. In 1864 the manuscript was purchased from a dealer at

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in Epeiros, by

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(1814-1906), a philanthropist, together with other Greek manuscripts (among them codices

532 __NOTOC__ Year 532 ( DXXXII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Second year after the Consulship of Lampadius and Probus (or, less frequently, ye ...

546 __NOTOC__ Year 546 ( DXLVI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 546 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era b ...

). They were transported to England in 1870-1871.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. All collection of manuscripts was presented by Burdett-Coutts to Sir Roger Cholmely's School. The manuscript was added to the minuscule manuscripts of the New Testament by F. H. A. Scrivener (546) and

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(533). Gregory saw it in 1883. Formerly the manuscript was housed at the Highgate (Burdett-Coutts 1. 4), in London. It was examined by Scrivener. It is currently housed at the University of Michigan (Ms. 21) in

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Images of the minuscule 533
at the CSNTM {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0533 Greek New Testament minuscules 13th-century biblical manuscripts University of Michigan

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