Minuscule 546

Minuscule 546

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
The first page of Matthew with the decorated headpiece
Text	Gospels †
Date	13th century
Script	Greek
Now at	University of Michigan
Size	15.5 cm by 11 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	bad condition incomplete marginalia

Minuscule 546 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 511 (in Soden's numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated palaeographically to the 13th century. It has some marginalia, 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.

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 276 thick parchment leaves (size 15.5 cm by 11 cm) 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.

The text is written in one column per page, 22 lines per page. The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numerals are given at the margin, and the τιτλοι (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 κεφαλαια (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 κεφαλαια to Matthew is not complete, it begins with the 52nd κεφαλαιον. The list of the κεφαλαια are complete before the other Gospels. The portrait of Saint John is defaced.

The nomina sacra are contracted in a usual way.

There are no signs of iota adscript or iota subscript. N εφελκυστικον is met with 63 times.