Minuscule 483

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| form = Minuscule | number = 483 | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = New Testament (except Rev.) | script = Greek | date = 1295 | found = | now at = Williams College | cite = | size = | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = marginalia

Minuscule 483 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 376 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1285 (altered to 985).{{Cite book | 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 = 76 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }} It contains liturgical books with hagiographies: Synaxarion and Menologion. Scrivener labelled it by number 543. The manuscript has complex contents.

Description

The codex contains the text of the New Testament except Book of Revelation on 360 parchment leaves. It is written in one column per page, 22-23 lines per page.{{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 = 194 | url = https://archive.org/details/textkritikdesne00greggoog

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles). The text of the Gospels is also divided according to the Ammonian Sections.

It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), Synaxarion (before Acts and all Epistles), and Menologion (after Jude).{{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 = 253 It has many corrections made by two hands.

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 | url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}} According to Scrivener it is different from codex 484 – both written by the same scribe – only in 183 places (errors of itacism excluded).

According to Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Family Kx in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. It belongs to the textual cluster 74. In Luke 20 it was corrected to Family Kr.{{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 | pages = 61, 92 | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/61 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration

It has many changes made in the text. The corrected text in Luke represents the textual family Family Kr.

History

The manuscript was written by Theodorus Hagiopetrita (as Minuscule 74, 484) in 1295 CE. It once belonged to Caesar de Missy, then to the Duke of Sussex's library, which was sold in 1844. In 1845 it belonged to William Pickering, the bookseller and publisher. Scrivener in 1894 noted "its present locality is unknown". Gregory wrote the same in 1900: "Heute verschollen". It was found later to be in the U.S.A.

The manuscript was examined and collated by Scrivener, who published its text in 1852. It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (543) and Gregory (483).

Currently it is housed at Williams College (Chapin Libr., Cod. De Ricci, no. 1) in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

References

References

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

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