Minuscule 479
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Minuscule 479 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 2491 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 13th century.[1] Scrivener labelled it by number 542.[2]
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Description
The codex contains the whole text of the New Testament except Book of Apocalypse on 231 parchment leaves (size ). Written in one column per page, 29 lines per page.[3] It contains tables of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, lectionary markings, αναγνοωσεις, στιχοι, subscriptions, and scholia of Chrysostom. It does not contain the τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections, and Eusebian Canons.[3][2] It has Euthalian apparatus to the Acts, Catholic, and Pauline epistles. The order of books: Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles.[3] It contains the pericope John 7:53-8:11 but marked with obelus.[4]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[5] It belongs to the textual family Family Kr.[6]
History
Formerly the manuscript belonged to the monastery του μετεωρου. The manuscript once belonged to Bishop of Caesarea Palaestina. It was bought by in 1837 by Christian Wordsworth († 1885), Bishop of Lincoln, and bears a stamp Biblioteca Suchtelen (Russian Ambassador at Stockholm).[2]
The manuscript was examined and collated by Scrivener, who published its text in 1852.[4] The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener. Gregory saw it in 1883.
It is currently housed at the Selly Oak College (Cod. Migdana Gr. 3) in Birmingham.[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. 75. 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. 253.
- 3. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 193.
- 4. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 194.
- 5. 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.
- 6. F. Wisse, The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1982, p. 92.
Further reading
- F. H. A. Scrivener, A Full and Exact Collation of About 20 Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels (Cambridge and London, 1852), p. XLII. (as l)
- F. H. A. Scrivener, An Exact Transcript of the Codex Augiensis (Cambridge and London, 1859), p. 63. (as g)
- J. N. Birdsal, Greek Hagiographical Manuscripts in the Library of the Selly Oak Colleges, Anal. Boll 86 (1968), pp. 333-336.
