Minuscule 504 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), 585 (in the
Scrivener's numbering), ε 111 (in the
Soden numbering),
is a
Greek minuscule manuscript
A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand or typewritten, as opposed to mechanically printed or reproduced in some indirect or automated way. More recently, the term has ...
of the
New Testament
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, on parchment, dated to the year 1033.
The manuscript has complex context with full
marginalia. It was adapted for liturgical use.
Description
The codex contains the complete text of the four
Gospel
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s on 287 parchment leaves (size ). It is written in one column per page, 20 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the (''titles of chapters'') at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 240 sections – the last section in 16:19), with references to the
Eusebian Canons.
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]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx.[ Aland placed it in Category V.]
History
The manuscript is dated by a colophon to the year 1033.
The manuscript was written by Synesius, a priest. It was bought by H. Rodd in 1848.
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (585) and C. R. Gregory (504). It was examined by Scrivener, Gregory (in 1883), and Kirsopp Lake.
It is currently housed at the British Library
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(Add MS 17470) in London
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.
See also
* List of New Testament minuscules
* Biblical manuscript
* Textual criticism
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References
Further reading
* ''Dated Greek Minuscule Manuscripts to the year 1200'', ed. Kirsopp Lake and Silva Lake, vol. II, p. 69.
* ''Facsimiles of Manuscripts and Inscriptions'', ed. E. A. Bond, E. M. Thompson and others, I (London, 1873–1883), p. 202.
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Greek New Testament minuscules
11th-century biblical manuscripts
British Library additional manuscripts