Minuscule 507 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 142 (in the Soden numbering), is a

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of the

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, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. Scrivener labeled it by number 493. It was adapted for liturgical use.

Description

The codex contains the complete text of the four

Gospel Gospel originally meant the Christian message (" the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was set out. In this sense a gospel can be defined as a loose-knit, episodic narrative of the words a ...

s on 221 parchment leaves (size ). It is written in two columns per page, 26 lines per page. The text is divided according to numbers of the (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, with (''titles'') at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 234 sections, the last section in 16:9), with references to the

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(written in the same line as Ammonian Sections).In the same way are arranged codices:

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192 Year 192 ( CXCII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aelius and Pertinax (or, less frequently, year 945 '' Ab urbe condit ...

198 __NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sergius and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 951 ''Ab u ...

212 Year 212 ( CCXII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Asper and Camilius (or, less frequently, year 965 '' Ab urbe condit ...

267 __NOTOC__ Year 267 ( CCLXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Paternus and Arcesilaus (or, less frequently, year 1 ...

583 __NOTOC__ Year 583 ( DLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 583 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar ...

584 __NOTOC__ Year 584 ( DLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 584 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era ...

. It contains (

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later hand), Eusebian Canon tables, (prolegomena later hand), tables of the (''tables of contents'') are placed before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (partly later), incipits, Synaxarion (liturgical book with hagiographies), subscriptions at the end of each Gospel (some from later hand), , and numbers of .

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the

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. Hermann von Soden included it to the textual family K^x. Aland placed it in Category V. According to the

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it represents textual family K^x in

Luke 1 Luke 1 is the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. With 80 verses, it is one of the longest chapters in the New Testament. This chapter describes the birth of John the Baptist and the events leading up ...

and

Luke 20 Luke 20 is the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the teaching of Jesus Christ in the temple in Jerusalem, especially his responses to questions raised by the Pharisees and Sadducees.Ha ...

. In

Luke 10 Luke 10 is the tenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the sending of seventy disciples by Jesus, the famous parable about the Good Samaritan, and his visit to the house of Mary and Martha.Hall ...

no profile was made.

History

The manuscript was written by Abraham Teudas, a scribe. In 1724 (or 1727) the manuscript came from the

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to England and was presented to archbishop of Canterbury,

William Wake William Wake (26 January 165724 January 1737) was a priest in the Church of England and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1716 until his death in 1737. Life Wake was born in Blandford Forum, Dorset, and educated at Christ Church, Oxford. He took ...

, along with the codices 73, 74, 506- 520. Wake presented it to the Christ Church College in Oxford. In 1732 John Walker slightly collated it for Bentley. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament minuscule manuscripts by

F. H. A. Scrivener Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener (September 29, 1813, Bermondsey, Surrey – October 30, 1891, Hendon, Middlesex) was a New Testament textual critic and a member of the English New Testament Revision Committee which produced the Revised Version ...

(493) and C. R. Gregory (507). Gregory saw it in 1883. It is currently housed at the Christ Church (Wake 21) in

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