Minuscule 483


Minuscule 483, ε 376, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1285.
It contains liturgical books with hagiographies: Synaxarion and Menologion. Scrivener labelled it by number 543. The manuscript has complex contents.

Description

The codex contains the text of the New Testament except Book of Revelation on 360 parchment leaves. It is written in one column per page, 22-23 lines per page.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι. The text of the Gospels is also divided according to the Ammonian Sections.
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, tables of the κεφαλαια before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin, Synaxarion, and Menologion.
It has many corrections made by two hands.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.
According to Scrivener it is different from codex 484 – both written by the same scribe – only in 183 places.
According to Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Family Kx in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. It belongs to the textual cluster 74. In Luke 20 it was corrected to Family Kr.
It has many changes made in the text. The corrected text in Luke represents the textual family Family Kr.

History

The manuscript was written by Theodorus Hagiopetrita in 1295 CE. It once belonged to Caesar de Missy, then to Duke's Sussex library. In 1845 it belonged to the Wm. Pickering, the bookseller. Scrivener in 1894 noticed "its present locality is unknown". The same wrote Gregory in 1900: "Heute verschollen". It was found later in U.S.A.
The manuscript was examined and collated by Scrivener, who published its text in 1852. It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener and Gregory.
Currently it is housed at the Williams College in Williamstown.