Minuscule 500
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Minuscule 500 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 223 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it had been assigned to the 13th century.<ref name = Aland>Kurt Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments (Walter de Gruyter: Berlin, New York, 1994), p. 76. isbn = 3110119862 </ref> Scrivener labeled it by number 587.<ref name = Scrivener>Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener, (ed.) Edward Miller, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament (George Bell & Sons: London, 1894), vol. 1, p. 259. </ref>
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Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 244 parchment leaves (size 20.6 by 14.8 cm) with some lacunae (John 18:7-21; 19:40-21:25). Written in one column per page, 23 lines per page.<ref name = Scrivener/> It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, tables of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections (Mark 234 - 16:9), (not Eusebian Canons), lectionary markings, αναγνωσεις, and subscriptions.<ref name = Gregory>Caspar René Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testaments (Leipzig, 1900), Vol. 1, p. 196. </ref><ref name = Scrivener/> It lacks Eusebian tables but there is space for it. Synaxarion and Menologion added by a later hand on paper.<ref name = Gregory/>
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.<ref>Kurt Aland, Barbara Aland, The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism, (trans.) Erroll F. Rhodes, (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company: Grand Rapids, 1995), p. 139. isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1 </ref> It belongs to the textual family K1.<ref>F. Wisse, The Profile Method for Classifying and Evaluating Manuscripts Evidence (Wm. Eerdmans 1982), p. 61. </ref>
History
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener. It was examined by Bloomfield, Scrivener, and Gregory.<ref name = Gregory/>
It is currently housed at the British Library (Additional Manuscripts, 17982) in London.<ref name = Aland/>
