Minuscule 489
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Minuscule 489 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 459 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. Dated by a Colophin to the year 1315 or 1316.[1] Scrivener labeled it by number 507.[2]
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Description
The codex contains the text of the New Testament except Gospels on 363 paper leaves (size of text21.5 cm by 15 cm) with some lacunae (Acts 7:48-60). Written in one column per page, 28 lines per page. It contains prolegomena, tables of κεφαλαια, Ammonian Sections, Eusebian Canons, κεφαλαια, lectionary markings, subscriptions, αναγνωσεις, Synaxarion, and Menologion to the Gospels.[3] It contains also υποθεσεις, lectionary markings, Synaxarion, Menologion and much extraneous matter to the Epistles.[2]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland did not place it in any Category.[5] It belongs to the textual family Π.
History
The manuscript has inelegantly written by a monk James from Mount Sinai.[2] It came from the Pantokratoros monastery at Mount Athos and belonged to Richard Bentley (as Minuscule 477).
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener, who thoroughly it examined and collated. Scrivener published its text in 1852.[5]
It is currently housed at the Trinity College (B.X. 16) in Cambridge.[1]
See also
References
- 1. Aland, K.; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 76. ISBN 3110119862.
- 2. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 248.
- 3. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 194.
- 4. Aland, Kurt; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- 5. 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
- F. H. A. Scrivener, A Full and Exact Collation of About 20 Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels (Cambridge and London, 1852), pp. 38-40. (as w)
- For more bibliographies see 041 and Family Π.
