Minuscule 505
New Testament manuscript | |
Name | Beginning of the Gospel of John, with the decorated headpiece |
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Text | Gospels |
Date | 12th-century |
Script | Greek |
Now at | British Library |
Size | 12.5 cm by 9.2 cm |
Type | Byzantine text-type |
Category | V |
Note | incomplete marginalia |
Minuscule 505 (in the
Description
The codex contains the complete text of the four Gospels on 226 parchment leaves (size 12.5 cm by 9.2 cm),[2] with 3 modern paper fly-leaves.[3] It is written in one column per page, 23 lines per page.[4] The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections, (no references to the Eusebian Canons). It contains lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use).[4][5]
Headpieces ornamented with geometric and foliate decoration, titles are written in uncials in colours (folios 1, 65, 105, 174). Decorated initial letters in red.[3] The manuscript was decorated by two artists.[4] The first artist decorated folio 1, a second artist decorated folios 65, 105 and 174 (see image). The text has not liturgical signs.[3]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 it has mixed Byzantine text.[6]History
Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 14th-century,
According to the inscription on folio 64 verso It was once in Genoa. It belonged to John Gibson, a dealer, who sold it for Edward Harley in 1733.[3]
The manuscript was examined by Scholz and wrongly classified by him as Evangelistarium with the number 149 on his list. The manuscript was examined by Scrivener and Gregory.[5] The manuscript was rebound in 1962.[3]
It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by
It is currently housed at the
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. 66.
- ^ ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
- ^ a b c d e Harleian 5538 at the British Library
- ^ a b c d e Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1 (4th ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 256.
- ^ a b c d Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchahndlung. p. 197.
- ^ ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
- ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
Further reading
- A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: [n. pub.], 1808–12), III (1808), no. 5538.
- Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1999- ), I, p. 103 [with further bibliography].
External links
- Harleian 5538 at the British Library