Minuscule 546 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 511 (in
Soden's numbering),
is a
Greek
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minuscule
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manuscript
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of the
New Testament
The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus in Christianity, Jesus, as well as events relating to Christianity in the 1st century, first-century Christianit ...
, on parchment. It is dated
palaeographically to the 13th century. It has some
marginalia
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, the scribe has made numerous errors.
The manuscript has survived in bad condition and some parts of it were lost. It is housed at the
University of Michigan
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.
Description
The codex contains the text 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 276 thick parchment leaves (size ) with some
lacunae at the beginning and end (John 18:30–21:25).
[ It has no covers.][ The manuscript has survived in bad condition and many of its leaves were misplaced in binding.][Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener]
''Adversaria Critica Sacra: With a Short Explanatory Introduction''
(Cambridge, 1893), p. LVIX.[
The text is written in one column per page, 22 lines per page.] The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numerals are given at the margin, and the (''titles of chapters'') at the top of the pages.
There is no a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections; it was not prepared for liturgical reading.[ ]
It contains tables of the (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel, and portrait of the John Evangelist before the Gospel of John. The other portraits probably were cut out. There are the decorated head-pieces at the beginning of each Gospel.[ The list of the to Matthew is not complete, it begins with the 52nd . The list of the are complete before the other Gospels. The portrait of Saint John is defaced.][
The ]nomina sacra
In Christian scribal practice, (singular: , Latin for 'sacred name') is the abbreviation of several frequently occurring divine names or titles, especially in Greek manuscripts of the Bible. A consists of two or more letters from the original w ...
are contracted in a usual way.
; Errors
There are no signs of iota adscript
Iota (; uppercase Ι, lowercase ι; ) is the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet. It was derived from the Phoenician alphabet, Phoenician letter Yodh. Letters that arose from this letter include the Latin alphabet, Latin I and J, the Cyrillic � ...
or iota subscript
The iota subscript is a diacritic mark in the Greek alphabet shaped like a small vertical stroke or miniature iota placed below the letter. It can occur with the vowel letters eta , omega , and alpha . It represents the former presence of an ...
. N εφελκυστικον is met with 63 times.[
There are 21 omissions 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 ...
'' (Matthew 1:12; 5:22; 7:10.19; 10:33; 12:31; 18:18; 19:9; Mark 10:34; 11:28; 13:20; 14:46; 15:41; Luke 7:20; 22:30; John 7:28; 9:32; 12:34; 17:18; 18:7).[
Errors of ]iotacism
Iotacism (, ''iotakismos'') or itacism is the process of vowel shift by which a number of vowels and diphthongs converged towards the pronunciation in post-classical Greek and Modern Greek. The term "iotacism" refers to the letter iota, the orig ...
are 387 (the first hand), some of them were corrected by a later hand. Scrivener enumerated all errors of the first hand: η for ι (28), ι for η (17), ε for αι (15), αι for ε (22), η for ει (54), ει for η (37), ι for ει (43), ει for ι (10), ω for ο (62), ο for ω (52), η for ε (4), ε for η (16), η for υ (5); υ for η (4), besides ημεις and υμεις interchanged 24 times; ω for ου (5), ου for ω (1); η for οι (10); οι for η (5); οι for υ (2); ι for υ (4); ει for υ (1); οι for ι (4).[ The augmentum is omitted five times (Matthew 18:23.28; 27:44; Luke 5:13; 7:41; John 1:20).][
It reads μελλει for μελει twice; always κυλος.][
The only Alexandrian forms are in Matthew 5:36; in Luke 5:19; ουτω is found 13 times.][
]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type
In the textual criticism of the New Testament, the Byzantine text-type (also called Traditional Text, Ecclesiastical Text, Constantinopolitan Text, Antiocheian Text, or Syrian Text) is one of the main Textual criticism#New Testament, text types. ...
. 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 Ak, related to the Antiocheian commentated text (Antiocheian = Byzantine).[ ] Aland placed the Greek text of the codex in Category V.
According to the Claremont Profile Method
The Claremont Profile Method is a method for classifying ancient manuscripts of the Bible. It was elaborated by Ernest Cadman Colwell and his students. Professor Frederik Wisse attempted to establish an accurate and rapid procedure for the classi ...
, it forms a textual group with the codex 1167, 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 ...
; 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 ...
.[
; Textual variants
The words before the bracket is the reading of the ]Textus Receptus
The (Latin for 'received text') is the succession of printed Greek New Testament texts starting with Erasmus' ''Novum Instrumentum omne'' (1516) and including the editions of Robert Estienne, Stephanus, Theodore Beza, Beza, the House of Elzevir ...
.
: Matthew 2:22 — (''upon'') ] omitted
: Matthew 3:11 — (''and fire'') ] omitted
: Matthew 3:13 — (''upon'') ] (''toward'')
: Matthew 3:15 — (''us'') ] omit
: Matthew 6:1 — (''pray'') ]
: Matthew 6:8 — ]
: Matthew 23:8 — (''leader'') ] (''teacher'')
: Matthew 23:14 — (''of heavens'') ] θυ (''of God'')
: Mark 10:30 — ] πρα και μρα (''father and mother'')
: Mark 11:4 — omit ] (''to the doors'')
: Luke 22:18 — omit ] (''from now'')
History
The manuscript is dated by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research, INTF to the 13th century. The early history of the manuscript is unknown.[ In 1864, the manuscript was in the possession of a dealer at ]Janina
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in Epeiros. It was then purchased from him by a representative of Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814–1906), a philanthropist, together with other Greek manuscripts (among them codices 532
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Year 532 ( DXXXII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Second year after the Consulship of Lampadius and Probus (or, less frequently, year 1285 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denom ...
– 545).[ They were transported to England in 1870–1871.
The manuscript was presented by Burdett-Coutts to Sir Roger Cholmely's School, and was housed at the Highgate (Burdett-Coutts III. 41), in London. In 1922 it was acquired for the University of Michigan. It is currently housed at the ]University of Michigan
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(Ms. 27) in Ann Arbor
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.
It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by F. H. A. Scrivener (559) and C. R. Gregory
C. or c. may refer to:
* Century, sometimes abbreviated as ''c.'' or ''C.'', a period of 100 years
* Letter C, the third letter in the alphabet.
* Cent (currency), abbreviated ''c.'' or ''¢'', a monetary unit that equals of the basic unit of man ...
(546).[ Gregory saw it in 1883.][ It was examined by ]Dean Burgon
John William Burgon (21 August 1813 – 4 August 1888) was an English Anglican divine who became the Dean of Chichester Cathedral in 1876. He was known during his lifetime for his poetry and his defense of the historicity and Mosaic authorshi ...
, who described it in his ''The Revision Revised''. Scrivener examined and collated its text. His collation was edited posthumously in 1893.
See also
* 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
* (as r)
* Kenneth W. Clark, ''A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America'' (Chicago, 1937), pp. 300–302.
External links
Images of the minuscule 546
at the CSNTM
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Greek New Testament minuscules
13th-century biblical manuscripts