New Testament manuscript |
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Name | Codex Dionysii |
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Text | New Testament † |
Date | 11th-century |
Script | Greek |
Now at | Christ Church, Oxford |
Size | 31.3 cm by 23.5 cm |
Type | Byzantine text-type |
Category | V |
Note | full marginalia |
Minuscule 506 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 101 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th-century. Scrivener labelled it by number 492e, 193a, 277p, and 26r. It was adapted for liturgical use.
The codex contains the text of the four New Testament on 240 parchment leaves (size 31.3 cm by 23.5 cm) with numerous lacunae. It is written in two columns per page, 36 lines per page. It has 12 omissions by homoioteleuton, N εφελκυστικον with ειπεν occurs 190 times, elsewhere 392 times in the Gospels. It has a large number of the itacistic errors (658). Codex contains a large number of the transcriptural errors.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, with their τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 233 sections, the last section in 16:8) in black, with references to the Eusebian Canons in red.
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, prolegomena to the Gospels, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) are placed before each book, lectionary markings at the margin, incipits, Lectionary books with hagiographies (Synaxarion, Menologion), pictures, and Euthalian Apparatus. Some illuminations were cut out. It has also some other material about synods, about Joseph, epistle of Basil to Gregory of Nyssa.