Minuscule 56 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 517 ( von Soden), is a

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of the

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, on paper leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 15th century.K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", ''

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'', Berlin, New York 1994, p. 49. The manuscript has complex contents and some

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Description

The codex contains complete text of the four Gospels on 232 paper leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, 24 lines per page. The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin (also in Latin), with some (''titles of chapters'') at the top of the pages. It contains Prolegomena to the

Gospel of Mark The Gospel of Mark), or simply Mark (which is also its most common form of abbreviation). is the second of the four canonical gospels and of the three synoptic Gospels. It tells of the ministry of Jesus from his baptism by John the Baptist to h ...

and

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, lists of the (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel, (''lessons''), titles to the Gospels, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, with numbers of (only in John), and numbered paragraphs.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the

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Hermann von Soden Baron Hermann von Soden (16 August 1852 – 15 January 1914) was a German Biblical scholar, minister, professor of divinity, and textual theorist. Life Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 16, 1852, Soden was educated at the University of Tübinge ...

classified it to the textual family K^x. Aland did not assign it to any Category of New Testament manuscripts.Kurt und

Barbara Aland Barbara Aland, née Ehlers (born 12 April 1937 in Hamburg, Germany) is a German theologian and was a Professor of New Testament Research and Church History at Westphalian Wilhelms-University of Münster until 2002. Biography After having c ...

, ''Der Text des Neuen Testaments. Einführung in die wissenschaftlichen Ausgaben sowie in Theorie und Praxis der modernen Textkritik''.

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, Stuttgart 1989, , S. 324. According to the

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it represents the textual family K^r in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. It creates textual cluster with 58. It means it has a strict the Byzantine text. The text contains some various readings. According to C. R. Gregory it is a sister or daughter of the codex 54. In John 8:6 it has textual reading και προσποιουμενος.

History

The manuscript was written by John Serbopoulos in England. In 1502 it was presented to the Lincoln College by

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, where it is still housed, under shelf number Gr. 18, at

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. Walton gave some various readings. It was examined by

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(Lincoln 1), Orlando T. Dobbin, and Scrivener. Dobbin compared its readings with

Codex Montfortianus Codex Montfortianus designated by 61 (on the list Gregory-Aland; Soden's δ 603), and known as ''Minuscule 61'' is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on paper. Erasmus named it Codex Britannicus. Its completion is dated on the ba ...

and 58 in 1922 places. Pascoe detected 34 omissions for four chapters. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.

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Online images of minuscule 56
( Digital Microfilm) at the

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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0056 Greek New Testament minuscules 15th-century biblical manuscripts Lincoln College, Oxford

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