Minuscule 488

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| form = Minuscule | number = 488 | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 14th-century | found = | now at = British Library | cite = | size = | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = none | hand = | note =

Minuscule 488 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 4006 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th 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 = 76 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }} Scrivener labeled it by number 514.{{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 Gregory it labeled twice, as 488 and number 1326 (Soden ε 488). The manuscript has complex contents with full marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 124 paper leaves (). The text is written in one column per page, 34 lines per page (size of text ).

It contains tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, numbers of the κεφαλαια (chapters) at the margin, the Ammonian Sections, references to the Eusebian Canons, and lectionary markings at the margin.{{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 | pages = 194–195, 254 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n207/mode/2up

Errors of itacism are very frequent and instances of ν εφελκυστικον.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a mixture of text-types with predominant the Byzantine element. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx.{{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 = 75 | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/75 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4

Aland did not place it in any Category.{{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}} It was not examined by Claremont Profile Method.{{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

History

The manuscript was brought from the monastery in the Greek Archipelago to England by Carlyle (1759–1804), professor of Arabic, together with the manuscripts 470, 471, 472, 473, 474, 475, and became part of his collection. After his death in 1804 it belonged to the Lambeth Palace (1180). Charles Burney made a collation only for Mark 1:1-4:16; John 7:53-8:11, it was held in the Lambeth Palace (1223). In 1817 it returned to the Patriarch of Jerusalem.

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener, who it examined and collated. Scrivener described and collated its text in 1852.

It is currently housed at the Library of Patriarch (139) in Jerusalem.

References

References

  1. Gregory, Caspar René. (1908). "Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament". J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung.
  2. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose. (1853). "Full and Exact Collation of About Twenty Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels". John W. Parker and Son.
  3. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose. (1853). "Full and Exact Collation of About Twenty Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels". John W. Parker and Son.

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