Minuscule 490

Add links
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Minuscule 490
New Testament manuscript
TextGospels †
Date11th-century
ScriptGreek
Found1825
Now atBritish Library
Size25.3 cm by 19.7 cm
TypeByzantine text-type/mixed
CategoryV
NoteKx

Minuscule 490 (in the

minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th-century.[2]
Scrivener labeled it by number 574.[3] The manuscript is lacunose.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 192 parchment leaves (size 25.3 cm by 19.7 cm) with some lacunae. The text is written in two columns 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) at the top. There is also a division according to the

Ammonian Sections (in Mark 234 Sections, the last in 16:9), with references to the Eusebian Canons.[4]

It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (in red), and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.[4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[5] According to the

902).[6]

History

The manuscript once belonged to

Claudius James Rich, consul in Baghdad. It was bought in 1825 for the British Museum.[3]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (574) and Gregory (490). It was examined by Scrivener[7] and Bloomfield.[4]

It is currently housed at the British Library (Add MS 7141) in London.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 66.
  2. ^
    ISBN 3-11-011986-2
    .
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ a b c Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 195.
  5. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1
    .
  6. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4
    .
  7. ^ F. H. A. Scrivener, A Full and Exact Collation of About 20 Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels (Cambridge and London, 1852), p. LV. (as w)

Further reading

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Minuscule_490&oldid=1059503436"