Minuscule 57


Minuscule 57, δ 255, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.
The manuscript is lacunose. It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains entire of the New Testament except the Book of Revelation on 291 parchment leaves, with two lacunae. The leaves are arranged in quarto. The text is written in one column per page, 25 lines per page. Psalms and Hymns follow Epistles.
The initial letters and headpieces are illuminated. It has accents and breathings, the nomina sacra are written in and abbreviated way. It is written in small beautiful letters with an abbreviations. The initial letters in gold.
It contains lists of the κεφαλαια before the Gospels of Matthew, Luke, and John. The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι at the top of the pages. It contains lectionary markings at the margin in red.
The order of books: Gospels, Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles, Psalms, and Hymns.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.
It was not examined by using the Claremont Profile Method.

History

The manuscript was written in Constantinople, in the 3rd quarter of the 12th century, with additions up to the end of the 14th century including a note relating to Epeiros.
Walton used it for a Polyglot. Henry Hammond collated the manuscript twice. It was also examined by Wettstein, Orlando T. Dobbin, and C. R. Gregory.
It is currently housed in at the Magdalen College, at Oxford.