Editing Minuscule 487

'''Minuscule 487''' (in the [[Biblical manuscript#Gregory-Aland|Gregory-Aland]] numbering), ε 363 (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 11th century.<sup>[1]</sup> 
Scrivener labeled it by number 516 on his list.<sup>[2]</sup>
Gregory labeled it twice as 487 and by another number 1321.

== Description ==

The codex contains the text of the four [[Gospel]]s on 218 parchment leaves ({{×|20.8|14.5}}). Written in one column per page, 18 lines per page (size of text{{×|11.5|9.5}}). It contains Eusebian tables, tables of κεφαλαια, [[Synaxarion]], [[Menologion]], and pictures<sup>[3]</sup> 

== Text ==

The Greek text of the codex is a mixture of text-types with predominent the [[Byzantine text-type|Byzantine]] element. [[Kurt Aland|Aland]] did not place it in any [[Categories of New Testament manuscripts|Category]].<sup>[4]</sup>
According to Wisse it is close to the codex [[Minuscule 51|51]] in Luke.

== History ==

The manuscript once belonged to the collection of J. D. Carlyle († 1804), then to the [[Lambeth Palace]] (1255, No. 25). G. Bennet made a collation of Matthew and Mark it is held in the [[Lambeth Palace]] (1255, No. 25).<sup>[2]</sup> In 1817 it returned to the Patriarche of Jerusalem.<sup>[3]</sup>

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by [[Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener|Scrivener]], who it examined and collated. Scrivener published its text in 1852.<sup>[5]</sup> 

It is currently housed at the Library of Patriarch (49) in [[Jerusalem]].<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. 76. 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. 249-250. 
*   3. [[Caspar René Gregory|Gregory, Caspar René]] (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 194-195, 254. 
*   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. LVII. (as u)



== 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), p. LVII. (as u)

== External links ==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuscule_487 Wikipedia Article on Minuscule 487]



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[[Category:Greek New Testament minuscules]]
[[Category:11th-century biblical manuscripts]]

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