Minuscule 520

{{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''520''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 12th century | found = | now at = Christ Church, Oxford | cite = | size = {{×|11.8|8.5}} | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = beautiful copy | note = marginalia incomplete }}

'''Minuscule 520''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 264 (in the Soden numbering),<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/n77/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=66}}</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 = K. | 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 = 77 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}</ref> Scrivener labelled it by number 506. The manuscript has complex contents.

== Description ==

The codex contains the complete text of the four Gospels on 213 parchment leaves (size {{×|11.8|8.5}}). It is written in one column per page, 22-23 lines per page.<ref name = Aland/> The tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''tables of contents'') are placed before each Gospel, but there are no numbers of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''chapters'') and their {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (''titles of chapters'').<ref name = Gregory/><ref name = Scrivener>{{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 = 248 }}</ref>

It contains lectionary markings at the margin (in red), incipits, {{lang|grc|αναγνωσεις}} (lessons), Synaxarion, Menologion, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel. There is no division according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''chapters''), or Ammonian Sections, and no references to the Eusebian Canons.<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 = 198 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n211/mode/2up }}</ref><ref name = Scrivener/> It is a beautiful little copy.<ref name = Scrivener/>

== Text ==

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.<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 = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n161 139] | url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref> It was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Wisse | first = Frederik | title = The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1982 | location = Grand Rapids | page = [https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/62 62] | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/62 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration }}</ref>

== History ==

In 1727 the manuscript came from Constantinople to England and was presented to archbishop of Canterbury, William Wake, together with the manuscripts 73, 74, 506-519. Wake presented it to Christ Church in Oxford.<ref>{{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 = 197 }}</ref>

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament minuscule manuscripts by F. H. A. Scrivener (506) and C. R. Gregory (520).<ref name = Scrivener/> Gregory saw it in 1883.<ref name = Gregory/>

It is currently housed at Christ Church (Wake 40) in Oxford.<ref name = Aland/>

== See also == {{Portal|Bible}}

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

== References ==

== Further reading ==

* {{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 198 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n211/mode/2up }}

== External links ==

{{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0520}} Category:Greek New Testament minuscules Category:12th-century biblical manuscripts