Minuscule 536
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New Testament manuscript |
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Folio 115 recto with the beginning of John (decorated headpiece)
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| Text | Gospels, Acts, Paul |
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| Date | 13th century |
| Script | Greek |
| Found | 1864, Janina |
| Now at | University of Michigan |
| Size | 13.2 cm by 9.2 cm |
| Type | Byzantine text-type / eclectic / mixed |
| Category | none |
| Hand | minute hand |
Minuscule 536 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 264 (in Soden's numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. Scrivener labeled it by number 549. Several pages of the manuscript were lost. Incomplete marginalia. The manuscript is available in a digital form on the internet.
It is "a very curious volume in ancient binding with two metal plates on the covers much resembling that of B-C. I. 7". The codex contains a complete text of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, and Pauline epistles on 174 parchment leaves (size 13.2 cm by 9.2 cm) with some additional material. It has only one lacuna (Acts 26:24-28:31). The lacking material was supplemented by another, but contemporary hand. The leaf after 63 is not numbered. The pages 127 recto and 127 verso are accompanied by horizontal lines in margin. The leaves 146-147 are written vertically.
The text is written one column per page, 26–31 lines per page, in a very minute hand. The large initial letters are decorated and in colours, the small initials are in red. It has decorated headpieces before each biblical book. The iota subscript is found twice only, and the error of itacism is quite rare. The writing being unusually full of abbreviations. The Old Testament quotations are marked by inverted comma (>).
It contains Prolegomena to the Acts of the Apostles, the tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) are placed before Gospel of Matthew, Luke and John, numbers of the κεφαλαια (chapters) are given at the margin, with their τιτλοι (titles) at the head and foot of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, but there are no references to the Eusebian Canons. It contains subscriptions at the end of each book and numbers of στιχοι (only in Luke). References to the Eusebian Canons are noted only on one page of the codex. Lectionary markings and αναγνωσεις (lessons), are given only to Matthew, and they were added by a later hand. It has some scholia on Matthew 5 (folio 11 verso and folio 12 recto).
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