Minuscule 561 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1289 (in the Soden numbering), is a

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of the

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, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. Scrivener labelled it by number 521. The manuscript has complex contents. It has

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Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four

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s on 290 parchment leaves (size ). The manuscript was written by many hands. The writing is in one column per page, 21-25 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 also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, (no references to the

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). It contains Prolegomena, tables of the (''tables of contents'') are placed before each Gospel, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the

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classified to the textual family K^x. Aland did not placed it in any

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. According to the

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it represents the textual family K^x in Luke 1, Luke 10. In Luke 20 it has mixed Byzantine text.

History

According to the INTF it was written in the 13th-century. The manuscript was written in Italy. It once belonged to Brian Walton in 1656. It was in Caesar de Missy's collection in London in 1748 (along with the codex 560, ℓ ''162'', ℓ ''239''). It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (521) and Gregory (561). Currently the manuscript is housed at the

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( Ms. Hunter 476) in

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Minuscule 561
at the ''CSNTM'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0561 Greek New Testament minuscules 13th-century biblical manuscripts University of Glasgow Library collection

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