{{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''321''' | image = Harleianus 5557 (first page of Colossians).jpg | isize = | caption= First page of the Epistle to Colossians; decorated initial Π | name = Harley MS 5557 | sign = | text = Acts, Paul † | script = Greek | date = 12th century | found = John Covell, 1675 | now at = British Library | cite = | size = {{×|18|15}} | type = | cat = none | hand = | note = marginalia }}

'''Minuscule 321''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 254 (Soden),<ref name = Gregory1908>{{cite book|last=Gregory|first=Caspar René|author-link=Caspar René Gregory|title=Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament|url=https://archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n69/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=59}}</ref> is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.<ref name = Aland>{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland |author2=M. Welte |author3=B. Köster |author4=K. Junack | title = Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments | publisher = Walter de Gruyter | year = 1994 | location = Berlin, New York | page = 66 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}</ref> Formerly it was designated by 26<sup>a</sup> and 32<sup>p</sup>. It has marginalia.

== Description ==

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 293 parchment leaves ({{×|18|15}}) with lacunae (Acts 1:1-11; Hebrews 11:34-12:6). The text is written in one column and 22 lines per page.<ref name = Aland/> The illuminations are in colours and gold.<ref name = BL>[http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=4933&CollID=8&NStart=5557 Harley 5557] at the ''British Library''</ref>

It contains Prolegomena, tables of the {{lang|grc-x-byzant|κεφαλαια}} (''tables of contents'') before each sacred book, lectionary markings at the margin for liturgical reading, Synaxarion (later hand), and subscriptions at the end of each book, with numbers of stichoi.<ref name = Gregory/>

On the folio 294 it contains fragments from a 14th-century manuscripts of the Psalms (64(65):3-14 and 67(68):2-13).

Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland | last2 = Aland | first2 = Barbara | author-link2 = Barbara Aland | others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) | title = The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1995 | location = Grand Rapids | page = 138 | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref>

== History ==

The manuscript was written in the 2nd half of the 12th century.<ref name = BL/>

The manuscript was in Constantinople in 1675. John Covel (1637-1722), British chaplain in Constantinople, purchased it in Adrianopol (together with codex 322).<ref>{{Cite book | last = Scrivener | first = Frederick Henry Ambrose | author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |author2=Edward Miller | title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1894 | location = London | edition = 4 | volume = 1 | page = 286 }}</ref> It later belonged to Robert Harley.

Formerly it was designated by 26<sup>a</sup> and 32<sup>p</sup>.<ref name = Gregory/> In 1908 Gregory gave the number 321 to it.<ref name = Gregory1908/>

It was examined by Mill (Cov. 3) and Bloomfeld. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.<ref name = Gregory>{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 265 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n277/mode/2up }}</ref>

The manuscript is currently housed at the British Library (Harley MS 5557).<ref name = Aland/>

== See also ==

* List of New Testament minuscules * Biblical manuscript * Textual criticism

== References ==

{{Reflist}}

== Further reading ==

* Cyril Ernest Wright, ''Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum'' (London: British Museum, 1972), pp.&nbsp;115, 459.

== External links ==

* [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=4933&CollID=8&NStart=5557 Harley 5557] at the ''British Library''

{{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0321}} Category:Greek New Testament minuscules Category:12th-century biblical manuscripts Category:Harleian Collection