Minuscule 481
New Testament manuscript | |
Text | Gospels |
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Date | 2nd half of the 10th-century |
Script | Greek |
Now at | British Library |
Size | 22.4 cm by 17.7 cm |
Type | Byzantine text-type |
Category | V |
Note | elegant copy |
Minuscule 481 (in the
it has been assigned to the 10th-century. Scrivener labeled it by number 569. The manuscript has complex contents.Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 218 parchment leaves (size 22.4 cm by 17.7 cm). It is written in one column per page, 22 lines per page.[2][3] It is clean and elegant copy; before each Gospel is a picture of its writer, of no very high order of art, but curious enough.[4] The half page of writing erased at the end of the Gospel of John.[4]
It is one of the very few manuscripts that are destitute of Liturgical apparatus. The style of the handwriting is unformed, the absence of all notes, κεφαλαια (chapters), etc. The only traces of which are red capitals in the marginal mark at John 13:31.
Two inscriptions state that it belonged in 1809 to the Library of St. Laurence in the Escurial.[4]
It contains portraits of Evangelists.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the
The text of
History
Currently it is dated by the
The manuscript was held in
The manuscript was examined and collated by Scrivener, who published its text in 1852.[2] The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (569). Gregory gave number 481 to it.[2][7] Gregory saw it in 1883.[2]
It is currently housed at the British Library (Burney 19) in London.[3]
See also
- List of New Testament minuscules
- Biblical manuscript
- Textual criticism
References
- ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 65.
- ^ a b c d e Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 194.
- ^ ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
- ^ a b c d e f F. H. A. Scrivener, A Full and Exact Collation of About 20 Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels (Cambridge and London, 1852), p. XLVIII.
- ^ ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
- ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ a b Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 257.
Further reading
- F. H. A. Scrivener (1852). A Full and Exact Collation of About 20 Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels. Cambridge and London. p. XLVIII.
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External links
- Burney 19 at the British Library