Minuscule 542 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 336 (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 15th century. Scrivener labelled it by number 555. The manuscript is lacunose. Currently it is inaccessible.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four

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s, on 264 parchment leaves (size ), with lacunae at the end (John 19:25-21:1). The text is written in one column per page, 24 lines per page. It is neatly written. There are breathings and accents used correctly. The

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um is rare.Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
''Adversaria Critica Sacra: With a Short Explanatory Introduction''
(Cambridge, 1893), p. XLIX. The

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are written in an abbreviated forms. According tο Scrivener Movable nu occurs only seven times, a

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for the lack of it thrice. There are not many itacistic errors, except ο for ω. The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their (''titles'') in red at the top and foot of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 232 Sections, the last section in 16:6) stand at the margin, with references to the

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under them (very partially). There are also Verses (the smallest sections). It contains Prolegomena, lists of the (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel (three of them in red). The Church lessons stand also at the margin in red. It has incipits,

Synaxarion Synaxarion or Synexarion (plurals Synaxaria, Synexaria; , from συνάγειν, ''synagein'', "to bring together"; cf. etymology of '' synaxis'' and ''synagogue''; Latin: ''Synaxarium'', ''Synexarium''; ; Ge'ez: ሲናክሳሪየም(ስንክ� ...

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, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, and portraits of the four Evangelists (before each Gospel). The text of Luke 22:43-44 and 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 ...

are omitted. The eight leaves of the codex contained Matthew 7:1-10:18 were misplaced by the binder at Matthew 26:26.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the

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. Aland did not place it in any

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, because the manuscript was not accessible for him. It was not examined by the

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(inaccessible). It has a few textual variations (e.g. Matthew 12:37; 13:32; 21:46; 23:25; Mark 9:28; 10:1.17; 13:11; 14:12; Luke 1:27; 8:14; 12:21; John 2:22; 12:40.42; 15:10; 19:17). Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts

History

Dated, probably by the first hand, to the year 1323, but dated by paleographers to the 15th century. According to Robert mathiesen it was written in the second half of the 16th century. In 1864 the manuscript was purchased from a dealer at

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in Epeiros, by Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814–1906), a philanthropist, together with other Greek manuscripts (among them codices

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- 546). They were transported to England in 1870-1871. The manuscript was added to the list of the New Testament minuscule manuscripts by F. H. A. Scrivener (555) and

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(542). Gregory saw it in 1883. The manuscript was presented by Burdett-Coutts to Sir Roger Cholmely's School, and was housed at the Highgate (Burdett-Coutts III. 4.13), in London. It was examined and collated by Scrivener in his ''Adversaria critica sacra'' (1893).F. H. A. Scrivener, ''Adversaria critica sacra'' (Cambridge, 1893). The current storage location of the manuscript is unknown.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0542 Greek New Testament minuscules 15th-century biblical manuscripts

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