Minuscule 528 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 148 (in Soden's numbering),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on a parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.[2] Scrivener labelled it by number 483.
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 354 parchment leaves (size). It is written in one column per page, 20 lines per page.[2]
The text is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 234 Sections, the last Section in 16:9) with references to the Eusebian Canons.[3]
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian tables, the tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) are placed before every Gospel, It contains lectionary markings at the margin, incipits, Synaxarion at the end, and portraits of the Evangelists.[4] [3]
It has also a few lectionary markings added by a later hand.[3]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx.[5] Aland placed it in Category V.[6] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.[5]
In 1727 the manuscript was brought from the Pantokrator monastery on the Mount Athos to England.[4] The manuscript was collated by Th. Mangey, Prebendary of Durham.[3]
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament minuscule manuscripts by F. H. A. Scrivener (483) and C. R. Gregory (528).[3] Gregory saw it in 1883.[4]
It is currently housed at the Bodleian Library (MS. Cromwell 16) in Oxford.[2]