Minuscule 499

New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionaries
Minuscule 499
Text Gospels †
Date 12th century
Script Greek
Found 1849
Now at British Library
Size 23.8 cm by 17 cm
Type Byzantine text-type
Category V

Minuscule 499 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 244 (in the Soden numbering),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.[2] Scrivener labelled it by number 586.[3] The manuscript is lacunose.

Contents

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 216 parchment leaves (size 23.8 cm by 17 cm) with some lacunae (Matthew 1:1-12:21; John 17:13-21:25). The text is written in one column per page, 22 lines per page.[2]

It contains the Ammonian Sections, (not references to the Eusebian Canons), incipits, and lectionary markings at the margin.[4] The genealogy in Luke 3:23-38 is in three columns.[3]

The Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is omitted.[4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. According to Hermann von Soden it is related to the Byzantine commentated text.[5] Aland placed it in Category V.[6] According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 it has mixed Byzantine text.[5]

History

The manuscript was bought in 1849 for the British Museum.[4] The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener. It was examined by Bloomfield, Scrivener, and Gregory.[4]

It is currently housed at the British Library (Additional Manuscripts, 17741) in London.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 66. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n77/mode/2up. 
  2. ^ a b c 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. 
  3. ^ a b Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 259. 
  4. ^ a b c d Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 196. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n209/mode/2up. 
  5. ^ a b Wisse, Frederik (1982). The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 61. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 
  6. ^ 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. 

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