Minuscule 484


Minuscule 484, ε 322, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on thick cotton paper. It is dated by a Colophon to the year 1291/1292.
The manuscript was prepared for liturgical use. It contains liturgical books. Scrivener labelled it by number 571. The manuscript has complex contents.

Description

The codex contains the complete text of the four Gospels on 258 thick paper leaves. The leaves are arranged in octavo. It is written in one column per page, 23-25 lines per page.
In some parts the text is almost illegible.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, but without references to the Eusebian Canons.
It contains the prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin, incipits, liturgical books with hagiographies, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, numbers of Stichometry, and pictures.
It is a fine copy, but much damaged.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents to the textual family Family Kx in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. It belongs to the textual cluster 74. According to Scrivener it is different from the codex 483 — written by the same scribe — only in 183 places.
The manuscript has several remarkable and unusual readings — from the point of view Textus Receptus — such as in Matthew 9:22; 18:30; 20:6; Mark 3:32; 5:22; 11:26; 12:12.

History

According to the colophon on folio 258, the manuscript was written by monk Theodoros Hagiographita in the 6800 year from creation of the world, it means in 1292 CE in Thessalonica, monastery of Philokalos. According to the note from 14th century on folio 8 verso, it was presented by monk Dositheos, son of the grammaticus Demetrios of Thessalonica, to the archon Alexios. Giovanni Saibante, of Verona, was its owner in the first half of the 18th century.
It once belonged to Charles Burney, as codices 480, 481, 482, 485, and ℓ 184. It was purchased to the British Museum in 1818.
The manuscript was examined and collated by Scrivener, who published its text in 1852. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener and Gregory. Scrivener collated its text. It was examined by Henri Omont.
It is currently housed at the British Library in London.