Editing Minuscule 472

'''Minuscule 472''' (in the [[Biblical manuscript#Gregory-Aland|Gregory-Aland]] numbering), α 1386 (in the [[Biblical manuscript#Von Soded|Soden]] numbering), is a [[Greek language|Greek]] [[Lower case|minuscule]] [[manuscript]] of the [[New Testament]], on parchment. [[Paleography|Paleographically]] it had been assigned to the 13th century.<sup>[1]</sup> 
Scrivener labelled it by number 511.<sup>2]</sup>

== Description ==

The codex contains the text of the [[Gospel]]s on 210 parchment leaves (size {{×|19.4|14.5}}), with numerous [[Lacuna (manuscripts)|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). Written in one column per page, 17-25 lines per page.<sup>[3]</sup> 
It contains the tables of κεφαλαια (Luke, John), κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections (Mark 235 - 16:14), [[Eusebian Canons]], lectionary markings, [[Synaxarion]], (not [[Menologion]]), subscriptions, and [[Stichometry|στιχοι]].<sup>[3]</sup><sup>[2]</sup> 
It was by several hands.<sup>[3]</sup> According to Scrivener it was "shamefully ill written, torn and much mutilated", but it has "valuable readings by far the most important at Lambeth.<sup>[2]</sup>

== Text ==

The Greek text of the codex is mixed. [[Kurt Aland|Aland]] did not place it in any of manuscript [[Categories of New Testament manuscripts|Categories]].<sup>[4]</sup>

== History ==

The manuscript was once in Constantinople, but brought from the East to England by [[Joseph Dacre Carlyle|Carlyle]] (1759-1804), professor of Arabic, together with the manuscripts [[Minuscule 470|470]], [[Minuscule 471|471]], [[Minuscule 473|473]], [[Minuscule 474|474]], [[Minuscule 475|475]], [[Minuscule 488|488]].<sup>[2]</sup>

The manuscript was examined by J. Farrer in 1804, Burney, Scrivener, and Gregory. [[Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener|Scrivener]] collated and published its text in 1852.<sup>[3]</sup> 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".<sup>[5]</sup> This opinion was supprted 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.<sup>[5]</sup>

It is currently housed at the [[Lambeth Palace]] (1177) in [[London]].<sup>[1]</sup>

== See also ==

* [[List of New Testament minuscules]]
* [[Biblical manuscript]]
* [[Textual criticism]]

== References == 

*   1. [[Kurt Aland|Aland, K.]]; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 75. ISBN 3110119862. 
*   2. [[Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener|Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose]]; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 249. 
*   3. [[Caspar René Gregory|Gregory, Caspar René]] (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 193. 
*   4. [[Kurt Aland|Aland, Kurt]]; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: [[William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company]]. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
*   5. [[Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener|F. H. A. Scrivener]], A Full and Exact Collation of About 20 Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels (Cambridge and London, 1852), p. XXIX.

== Further reading ==

* [[Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener|F. H. A. Scrivener]], ''A Full and Exact Collation of About 20 Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels'' (Cambridge and London, 1852), pp. XXIX-XXXI. (as c)

== External links ==
* [http://www.skypoint.com/members/waltzmn/Manuscripts1-500.html#m472 Minuscule 472] at the ''Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism'' 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuscule_472  Wikipedia Article on Minuscule 472]

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[[Category:Greek New Testament minuscules]]
[[Category:13th-century biblical manuscripts]]

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