New Testament manuscript |
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Name | Liber Canonicus 34 |
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Text | New Testament |
Date | 1515/1516 |
Script | Greek |
Now at | Bodleian Library |
Size | 23 cm by 16.5 cm |
Type | Byzantine text-type |
Category | V/III |
Note | full marginalia |
Minuscule 522 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 145 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on a paper. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1515 or 1516. Scrivener labelled it by number 488. It was adapted for liturgical use.
The codex contains the entire of the New Testament on 319 paper leaves (size 23 cm by 16.5 cm) with only one lacuna in the Apocalypse 2:11-23. The order of books: Gospels, Pauline epistles (Philemon, Hebrews), Acts, Catholic epistles, and Apocalypse. The scribe was unfamiliar with Greek.
The text written in one column per page, 25 lines per page. The breathings and accents are given correctly with very few exceptions.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin (added by later hand in Latin), and their τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. The text of the Gospels has also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons.
The tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) are placed before each of book, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), incipits, αναγνωσεις (lessons), Synaxarion, Menologion, and some pictures. It has Oecumenius and Euthalius prolegomena.
In Apocalypse, there were 13 instances of errors by homoioteleuton, errors of itacism are few.N ephelkystikon before a consonant 3 times, 2 times it lacks before hiatus.