Minuscule 477

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| form = Minuscule | number = 477 | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 13th century | found = | now at = Trinity College, Cambridge | cite = | size = | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = marginalia

Minuscule 477 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 350 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. Scrivener labelled it by number 508. The manuscript has complex contents, with marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 317 parchment leaves (size ), without any lacunae. It is written in one column per page, 26 lines per page.{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 193 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n205/mode/2up | last = Aland | first = Kurt | 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 }}

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. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, (without references to the Eusebian Canons).

It contains tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), and Synaxarion (added by a later hand on paper).{{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, vol. 1 | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1894 | location = London | edition = 4 | pages = 248–249

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.{{Cite book | last1 = Aland | first1 = 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 cluster 1216 in Luke 1 (weak), Luke 10 (weak), and Luke 20. It creates textual pair with 2174.{{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

History

Currently it is dated to the 13th century by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research.

The manuscript used to be held at the Pantokratoros monastery at Mount Athos. It was taken to England and belonged to Richard Bentley (as did Minuscule 489), who presented it to the Trinity College.

The manuscript was examined and collated by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener, who published its text in 1852. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.

It is housed at the Trinity College (B. X. 17) in Cambridge.

References

References

  1. Gregory, Caspar René. (1908). "Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament". J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung.

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