Minuscule 488

Minuscule 488 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 4006 (in the Soden numbering),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th-century.[2] Scrivener labeled it by number 514.[3] Gregory it labeled twice, as 488 and number 1326 (Soden ε 488). The manuscript has complex contents with full marginalia.

Minuscule 488

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
Text	Gospels
Date	14th-century
Script	Greek
Now at	British Library
Size	29 cm by 21 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	none

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 124 paper leaves (29 cm by 21 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 34 lines per page (size of text 21.5 cm by 15 cm).[2]

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.[4]

Errors of itacism are very frequent and instances of ν εφελκυστικον.[5]

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 K^x.[6]

Aland did not place it in any Category.[7] It was not examined by Claremont Profile Method.[8]

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.[3] 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).[3] In 1817 it returned to the Patriarch of Jerusalem.[4]

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.[9]

It is currently housed at the Library of Patriarch (139) in Jerusalem.[2]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

1. Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 65.
2. Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 76. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
3. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 249.
4. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. pp. 194–195, 254.
5. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1853). Full and Exact Collation of About Twenty Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels. Cambridge and London: John W. Parker and Son. p. LVIII.
6. Wisse, Frederik (1982). The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 75. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
7. Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
8. Wisse, Frederik (1982). The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 61. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
9. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1853). Full and Exact Collation of About Twenty Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels. Cambridge and London: John W. Parker and Son. p. LVII–LVIII. (as v)

Further reading

• H. J. Todd, An Account of Greek Manuscripts, chiefly biblical, which had been in the possession of the late Professor Carlyle, the greater part of which are now deposited in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth Palace (1823)
• Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1853). Full and Exact Collation of About Twenty Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels. Cambridge and London: John W. Parker and Son. pp. LVII–LVIII. (as v)

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