Minuscule 476

Minuscule 476
New Testament manuscript
The first page of John
The first page of John
TextGospels
Date11th century
ScriptGreek
Now atBritish Library
Size17.5 cm by 13.5 cm
TypeByzantine text-type
CategoryV
Notefull marginalia

Minuscule 476 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1126 (in the Soden numbering),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. The manuscript was adapted for liturgical use. It has liturgical books and full marginalia. Scrivener labelled it by number 566. The codex is in the British Library as Arundel MS 524.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 218 parchment leaves (size 17.5 cm by 13.5 cm),[2] with only one lacunae (John 11:18-41).[3] The text is written in one column per page, 27 lines per page.[2]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 236 sections, the last section in 16:15), with references to the Eusebian Canons.[3]

It contains Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), liturgical books with hagiographies (Synaxarion and Menologion), and pictures.[4][3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[5] It belongs to the textual family K1.[6]

History

Scrivener and Gregory dated it to the 11th century. It is dated by the INTF to the 11th century.[2]

The manuscript was brought from the East to England by Thomas Earl of Arundel in 1646. Henry Howard, Evelyn's Duke of Norfolk, presented it to the Royal Society in 1667 (along with ℓ 183 and ℓ 187). It was transferred in 1831 to the British Museum.[4]

The manuscript was examined and collated by Scrivener, who published its text in 1852.[3] The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (566) and Gregory (476).[3]

It is currently housed at the British Library (Arundel MS 524) in London.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 65.
  2. ^ a b c d Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 75. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  3. ^ a b c d e Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 193.
  4. ^ a b Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 256.
  5. ^ 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.
  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. 61. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.

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