Text Gospels Script Greek Size 28.7 cm by 23.5 cm | Date 11th century Now at Lambeth Palace Type Byzantine text-type | |
Minuscule 473 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1390 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. Scrivener labelled it by number 512. It has liturgical books and full marginalia.
Contents
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 309 parchment leaves (size 28.7 cm by 23.5 cm), with only one lacuna (Matthew 1:1-8). The text is written in two columns per page, 22-24 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages. The text is also divided according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 240 sections – the last in 16:9), with a references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian section numbers).
It contains prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) are placed before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), Menologion (liturgical book), and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel. The Synaxarion, another liturgical book, was added by a later hand at the end of the manuscript. It is splendidly illuminated.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.
It was classified by Hermann von Soden as Ikc, as a part of the third group of Family Π witnesses, along with such manuscripts as 229, 280, 482, and 1354. According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the group Π 473 in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.
History
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, 472, 474, 475, 488.
The manuscript was examined by J. Farrer in 1804, Scrivener, and Gregory. Scrivener described and collated its text in 1852. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (512) and Gregory (473). C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.
It is currently housed at the Lambeth Palace (1178) in London.