Minuscule 58


Minuscule 58, ε 518, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 15th century.
The manuscript has complex contents. It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains complete text of the four Gospels on 342 leaves. The text is written in one column per page, 20-21 lines per page. Name of scribe Joannes Serbopulos. According to Scrivener it is carelessly written.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the Ammonian Sections, but this system is used only partially.
It contains prolegomena, lists of the κεφαλαια before each Gospel, αναγνωσεις at the margin, synaxaria, and subscriptions.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx. Aland placed it in Category V. According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents Kr text in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. Ii creates textual cluster with 56.
C. R. Gregory noticed that it is close to the manuscripts Minuscule 47, 54, 56, 61.

History

The manuscript was written by John Serbopoulos.
Ussher collated it for Walton's Polyglotte. It was examined by Mill, Wettstein in 1715, Dobbin, and C. R. Gregory. Dobbin compared its readings with Codex Montfortianus and 56 in 1922 places. Gregory expressed the opinion that codices 47, 56, 58 are in the same hand, and one of them copied from 54.
It is currently housed in at the New College, at Oxford.