Editing Minuscule 481 (section)

== Description ==

The codex contains the text of the [[Gospel]]s on 218 parchment leaves (size 22.4 cm by 17.7 cm). Written in one column per page, 22 lines per page.<sup>[3]</sup> 
It is clean and elegant copy; before each Gospel is a  picture of its writer, of no very high order of art, but curious enough.<sup>[4]</sup>
The half page of writing erased at the end of the Gospel of John.<sup>[4]</sup> 

It is one of the very few manuscripts that are destitute of Liturgical apparatus. The style of the handwriting is unformed, the absence of all notes, κεφαλαια, etc. The only traces of which are red capitals in the marginal mark at John 13:31; the obelus at Luke 22:43.44.<sup>[4]</sup> Two inscriptions state that it belonged in 1809 to the Library of [[San Lorenzo de El Escorial|St. Laurence in the Escurial]]. The breathings and accents are complete and tolerably correct. There is no ι subscriptum but ι adscriptum in Mark 14:14; John 5:22 and in few other places. [[Iotacism|Itacisms]] are more frequent than in Codex [[Minuscule 470|470]]. Erasures and corrections by a later hand exist, but are not very frequent. One of the most remarkable errors of scribe Scrivener noticed in Mark 2:12 and Mark 6:55 - κραβατγον (instead of κραβαττον).<sup>[4]</sup>