Text Gospels Script Greek Size 19.4 cm by 14.5 cm | Date 13th century Now at Lambeth Palace Type mixed | |
Minuscule 472 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1386 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. Scrivener labelled it by number 511.
Contents
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 210 parchment leaves (size 19.4 cm by 14.5 cm), with numerous lacunae (Matthew 4:1-7:6; 20:21-21:12; Luke 4:29-5:1; 5:17-33; 16:24-17:13; 20:19-41; John 6:51-8:2; 12:20-40; 14:27-15:13; 17:6-18:2; 18:37-19:14).
The text is written in one column per page, 17-25 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 235 – the last section in 16:14), with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).
It contains the tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before Luke and John, lectionary markings at the margin, liturgical book Synaxarion, (not Menologion), and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel with numbers of στιχοι.
It was by several hands. According to Scrivener it was "shamefully ill written, torn and much mutilated", but it has "valuable readings by far the most important at Lambeth.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is mixed. Aland did not place it in any of manuscript Categories.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it has mixed text in Luke 1 and Luke 20 (fragmentary). It has a mixture of Byzantine families in Luke 10. It belongs also to the textual cluster 1009.
The text of John 6:4 is omitted.
History
F. H. A. Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 12th century. C. R. Gregory dated it to the 13th-15th century. Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 13th century.
The manuscript was once in Constantinople, but brought from the East to England by Carlyle (1759-1804), professor of Arabic, together with the manuscripts 470, 471, 473, 474, 475, 488.
The manuscript was examined by J. Farrer in 1804, Burney, Scrivener, and Gregory (1883). Scrivener collated and published its text in 1852. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener. Burney noticed: "Mendis erratisque ita scatet, ut scriptorum imperitiae et oscitantiae luculentissimum fiat argumentum". This opinion was supported by Scrivener: "I certainly never met with a copy of the Gospels written with such irreverent and scandalous negligence, but this is only one instance out of a thousand of the danger of ludging hastily from first appearances".
It is currently housed at the Lambeth Palace (1177) in London.