page_title: Minuscule 556
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Minuscule 556 / History
caption_attribution_description: English: folio 4 recto of the codex, the biblical text is surrounded (catena on 4 margins)
context_page_description: Minuscule 556, A ²¹³, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on a parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.
  Scrivener labelled it by number 526.
context_section_description: The manuscript was brought along with seven other manuscripts (676, 677, 678, 679, 680, 681, and 682) by the late Sir Thomas Phillips, at Middle Hill in Worcestershire. These manuscripts were in the property of Mr. Fitzroy Fenwick, then at Thirlestaine House in Cheltenham.
  The manuscripts was added to the list of the New Testament minuscule manuscripts by F. H. A. Scrivener (526) and C. R. Gregory (556).
  The manuscript was examined by Scrivener in 1856, Dean Burgon in 1880, and Herman C. Hoskier in 1886, who quotes some of its readings.
  It is currently housed at the Bodmer Library (Cod. Bodmer 25) in Cologny.
caption: Folio 4 recto
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