Minuscule 484 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 322 (in the Soden numbering), is a

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of the

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, on thick cotton paper (''charta Damascena''). It is dated by a Colophon to the year 1291/1292. The manuscript was prepared for liturgical use. It contains liturgical books. Scrivener labelled it by number 571. The manuscript has complex contents.

Description

The codex contains the complete text of the four

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s on 258 thick paper leaves (size ). The leaves are arranged in

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(eight leaves in quire). It is written in one column per page, 23-25 lines per page. In some parts the text is almost illegible. The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their (''titles'') at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 234 sections, the last section in 16:9), but without references to the

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. It contains the prolegomena, tables of the (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), incipits, liturgical books with hagiographies (

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and

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), subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, numbers of , and pictures. It is a fine copy, but much damaged.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the

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. Aland placed it in Category V. According to the

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it represents to the textual family Family K^x in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. It belongs to the textual cluster 74. According to Scrivener it is different from the codex 483 — written by the same scribe — only in 183 places (errors of

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s excluded). The manuscript has several remarkable and unusual readings — from the point of view Textus Receptus — such as in Matthew 9:22; 18:30; 20:6; Mark 3:32; 5:22; 11:26; 12:12.

History

According to the colophon on folio 258, the manuscript was written by monk Theodoros Hagiographita in the 6800 year from creation of the world, meaning in 1292 CE in

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, monastery of Philokalos. According to the note from 14th century on folio 8 verso, it was presented by monk Dositheos, son of the grammaticus Demetrios of Thessalonica, to the archon Alexios. Giovanni Saibante, of

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, was its owner in the first half of the 18th century.Codex Burney 21
at the British Library It once belonged to

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, as codices

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, and ℓ ''184''. It was purchased for the

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in 1818. The manuscript was examined and collated by

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, who published its text in 1852. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (571) and Gregory (484). Scrivener collated its text. It was examined by

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.Henri Omont
''Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum''
Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes, 45 (1884), pp. 344, 349. It is currently housed at the

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(Burney MS 21) in

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Codex Burney 21
at the British Library {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0484 Greek New Testament minuscules 13th-century biblical manuscripts Burney Collection Manuscripts in the British Library

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