Minuscule 484

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| form = Minuscule | number = 484 | image = Minuscule 484 (f. 9).jpg | isize = | caption= Folio 9 | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 1291/1292 | found = | now at = British Library | cite = | size = | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = fine copy, but damaged

Minuscule 484 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 322 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on thick cotton paper (charta Damascena). It is dated by a Colophon to the year 1291/1292.

The manuscript was prepared for liturgical use. It contains liturgical books. Scrivener labelled it by number 571. The manuscript has complex contents.

Description

The codex contains the complete text of the four Gospels on 258 thick paper leaves (size ). It is written in one column per page, 23-25 lines per page.{{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 }}{{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/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n207/mode/2up In some parts the text is almost illegible.

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles) 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), but without references to the Eusebian Canons.

It contains the prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), incipits, liturgical books with hagiographies (Synaxarion and Menologion), subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, numbers of στιχοι, and pictures.{{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 = 257 It is a fine copy, but much damaged.

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 to the textual family Family Kx in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. It belongs to the textual cluster 74.{{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

The manuscript has several remarkable and unusual readings — from the point of view Textus Receptus — such as in Matthew 9:22; 18:30; 20:6; Mark 3:32; 5:22; 11:26; 12:12.

History

According to the colophon on folio 258, the manuscript was written by monk Theodoros Hagiographita in the 6800 year from creation of the world, meaning in 1292 CE in Thessalonica, monastery of Philokalos.

It once belonged to Charles Burney, as codices 480, 481, 482, 485, and ℓ 184. It was purchased for the British Museum in 1818.

The manuscript was examined and collated by Scrivener, who published its text in 1852.

It is currently housed at the British Library (Burney MS 21) in London.

References

References

  1. Gregory, Caspar René. (1908). "Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament". J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung.
  2. The leaves are arranged in [[octavo]] (eight leaves in quire).Henri Omont, [http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/bec_0373-6237_1884_num_45_1_447248 ''Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum''], Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes, 45 (1884), p. 344.
  3. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose. (1853). "Full and Exact Collation of About Twenty Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels". John W. Parker and Son.
  4. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose. (1853). "Full and Exact Collation of About Twenty Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels". John W. Parker and Son.
  5. Henri Omont, [http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/bec_0373-6237_1884_num_45_1_447248 ''Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum''], Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes, 45 (1884), p. 349.
  6. According to the note from 14th century on folio 8 verso, it was presented by monk Dositheos, son of the grammaticus Demetrios of Thessalonica, to the archon Alexios. Giovanni Saibante, of [[Verona]], was its owner in the first half of the 18th century.[http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7306&CollID=18&NStart=21 Codex Burney 21] at the British Library
  7. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (571) and Gregory (484). Scrivener collated its text. It was examined by [[Henri Omont]].Henri Omont, [http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/bec_0373-6237_1884_num_45_1_447248 ''Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum''], Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes, 45 (1884), pp. 344, 349.

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