Minuscule 356 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 255 ( Soden), is a Greek

minuscule Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (or more formally ''minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing ...

manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. Formerly it was labelled by 53^a and 30^p, and cited by Tischendorf as n^scr. It has

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The codex contains the text of the 2 Peter 2:4-3:18; 1 John 1:1-3:20 and

Pauline epistles The Pauline epistles, also known as Epistles of Paul or Letters of Paul, are the thirteen books of the New Testament attributed to Paul the Apostle, although the authorship of some is in dispute. Among these epistles are some of the earliest extan ...

on 145 parchment leaves (size ) with some lacunae (1 Corinthians 11:7-15:56; Hebrews 11:27-13:25). The text is written in one column per page, in 24 lines per page, in very small and beautiful minuscule letters. According to Scrivener it has 184 errors of itacism. The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their (''titles of chapters'') at the top of the pages. It contains

Oecumenius Oecumenius ( el, Οἰκουμένιος) is the name under which are transmitted several commentaries in Greek on the New Testament. It now appears that these were not all written by the same person nor in the same period. Oecumenius was once be ...

' Prologue to the Romans, tables of the (''tables of contents'') before each sacred book, and some marginal notes made by ''primâ manu''. The text after 1 Timothy 6:5 was written by other hand, and far less careful. The manuscript exhibits throughout many abbreviations.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.

History

The manuscript was given to the College ''in Testimonium grati animi'' by

Samuel G. Wright Samuel Gardiner Wright (November 18, 1781 – July 30, 1845) was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for from March to July of 1845. Early life Wright was born in Wrightstown, New Jersey. ...

, a member of the College, in 1598. It was examined by John Mill (Cant. 3), Wettstein (53^a, 30^p),

Fenton Hort Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828–1892), known as F. J. A. Hort, was an Irish-born theologian and editor, with Brooke Foss Westcott of a critical edition of ''The New Testament in the Original Greek''. Life He was born on 23 April 1828 ...

, Dean Burgon, and Scrivener. (as n)

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saw it in 1883. The manuscript was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852). Formerly it was labelled by 53^a and 30^p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 356 to it. The manuscript is currently housed at the Emmanuel College (I. 4. 35, MS 110) in Cambridge.

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