Minuscule 474

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| form = Minuscule | number = 474 | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 11th century | found = | now at = Lambeth Palace | cite = | size = | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = neatly written | note = bad condition

Minuscule 474 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 137 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = K. | author-link = Kurt Aland |author2=M. Welte |author3=B. Köster |author4=K. Junack | title = Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments | publisher = Walter de Gruyter | year = 1994 | location = Berlin, New York | page = 75 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }} Scrivener labeled it by number 513.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 351 parchment leaves (size ), with some lacunae (Matthew 1:1-13:53; 16:28-17:18; 24:39-25:9; 26:71-27:14; Mark 8:32-9:9; John 11:9-29; 13:8-21:25). It is written in two columns per page, 24 lines per page. There is a pagination with Armenian numbers.{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = J.C. Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 193 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n205/mode/2up

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 241 Sections, the last in 16:20), with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).

It contains subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, and lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical reading).{{Cite book | last = Scrivener | first = Frederick Henry Ambrose | author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |author2=Edward Miller | title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1894 | location = London | edition = 4 | volume = 1 | page = 249 It is neatly written but survived in wretched condition.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland | last2 = Aland | first2 = Barbara | author-link2 = Barbara Aland | others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) | title = The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1995 | location = Grand Rapids | page = 139 | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kx in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.{{Cite book | last = Wisse | first = Frederik | title = The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1982 | location = Grand Rapids | page = 61 | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/61 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration

In Matthew 2:11 it reads ευρον for ειδον.

History

F. H. A. Scrivener dated manuscript to the 10th century, C. R. Gregory to the 11th century. Currently it is dated by the INTF it to the 11th century.

The manuscript was once in the Trinity monastery at Chalke. It was brought from the East to England by Carlyle (1759–1804), professor of Arabic, together with the manuscripts 470, 471, 472, 473, 475, 488.

The manuscript was examined by J. Farrer in 1804, Scrivener, who gave the first description of it. Scrivener collated its text in 1852. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (513) and Gregory (474). Gregory saw it in 1883.

It is currently housed at the Lambeth Palace (1179) in London.

References

References

  1. Gregory, Caspar René. (1908). "Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament". J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung.
  2. "Liste Handschriften". Institute for New Testament Textual Research.
  3. NA26, p. 4.
  4. F. H. A. Scrivener, ''A Full and Exact Collation of About 20 Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels'' (Cambridge and London, 1852), p. XXXIII. (as e)

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