Editing Minuscule 488 (section)

== History ==

The manuscript was brought from the monastery in the Greek Archipelago to England by [[Joseph Dacre Carlyle|Carlyle]] (1759-1804), professor of Arabic, together with the manuscripts [[Minuscule 470|470]], [[Minuscule 471|471]], [[Minuscule 472|472]], [[Minuscule 473|473]], [[Minuscule 474|474]], [[Minuscule 475|475]], and became part of his collection.<sup>[2]</sup> After his death in 1804 it belonged to the [[Lambeth Palace]] (1180). Charles Burney made a collation only for Mark 1:1-4:16; [[Jesus and the woman taken in adultery|John 7:53-8:11]], it is held in the [[Lambeth Palace]] (1223).<sup>[2]</sup> In 1817 it returned to the Patriarch of Jerusalem.<sup>[3]</sup>

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by [[Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener|Scrivener]], who it examined and collated. Scrivener published its text in 1852.<sup>[6]</sup> 

It is currently housed at the Library of Patriarch (139) in [[Jerusalem]].<sup>[1]</sup>