Minuscule 492
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| form = Minuscule | number = 492 | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 1325/1326 | found = | now at = British Library | cite = | size = | type = Byzantine text-type/mixed | cat = V | hand = beautifully written | note =
Minuscule 492 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 433 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1325 or 1326.{{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 }} Scrivener labeled it by number 577.{{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 | volume = 1 | page = 258 The manuscript has complex contents.
Description
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 269 parchment leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, 24 lines per page. According to Scrivener it is beautifully written.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, with the τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages.{{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 = 195 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n207/mode/2up
It contains the tables of κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin, some αναγνωσεις (later hand), and pictures. Liturgical books with hagiographies Synaxarion and Menologion were added by a later hand.
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}} Hermann von Soden included it to the textual family Kx. It was confirmed by Claremont Profile Method in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.{{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
The manuscript was written by Constantin, a monk, for the wish of Archimadrite Kallinikus, in the monastery of the Saint Demetrius. It was once at Sinai, then it belonged to the Bishop Butler's collection (as 491 and 493).
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (577) and Gregory (492). It was examined by Scrivener and Bloomfield. Edward Maunde Thompson published facsimile.
It is currently housed at the British Library (Add MS 11838) in London.
References
References
- Gregory, Caspar René. (1908). "Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament". J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung.
- ''Facsimiles of Ancient Manuscripts'', ed. [[Edward Maunde Thompson. E. M. Thompson]] and others, I (London, 1903-1912); New Pal Soc I, 130.
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