Minuscule 448

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Minuscule 448
Folio 4, beginning of the Gospel of Matthew
Text	Gospels †
Date	1478
Script	Greek
Now at	British Library
Size	31.2 cm by 21.5 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Note	marginalia

Minuscule 448 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 509 (in the Soden numbering),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1478.^[2] It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 299 parchment leaves (31.2 cm by 21.5 cm). The text is written in one column per page, in 22 lines per page.^[2]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters) whose numerals are given at the margin, and the τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages.^[3]

It contains lists of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, and very beautiful pictures.^[4][3] It is clearly but unskilfully written.^[4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the Antiocheian (i.e. Byzantine) commentated text.^[5] Aland placed it in Category V.^[6] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family K^x in Luke 1 and Luke 20. It belongs also to the textual cluster 183. In Luke 10 no profile was made.^[5]

History

According to the colophon it was written in Rome, April 25, 1478 by Joannes Rhosos of Crete for Francis Gonzaga Cardinal of St. Maria Nuova. There is a note that Rhosos also wrote the Vatican Homer in 1477 for Cardinal Gonazaga. Then it belonged to Giovanni Pietro Arrivabene.^[4] Nathaniel Noel purchased it for the Harleian Library between 20 January between 1721 and 1722.^[7]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).^[8] It was examined by Covell, Scholz (only Mark 5), Bloomfield, and C. R. Gregory in 1883.^[3]

It is currently housed at the British Library (Harley 5790) in London.^[2]

See also

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• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 64. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n75/mode/2up. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} Aland, K.; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 74. ISBN 3110119862. 
3. ^ ^{a b c} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig. p. 191. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n203/mode/2up. 
4. ^ ^{a b c} Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894 (2005 reprint)). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 239. 
5. ^ ^{a b} Wisse, Frederik (1982). The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 60. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 
6. ^ 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. 
7. ^ Harleian 5790 at the British Library
8. ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894 (reprint 2005)). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1. London. p. 225. 

Further reading

• Cyril Ernest Wright, Manuscripts of Italian Provenance in the Harleian Collection in the British Museum: Their Sources, Associations and Channels of Acquisition, in Cultural Aspects of the Italian Renaissance. Essays in Honour of Paul Oskar Kristeller, ed. by C. H. Clough (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1976), pp. 462-84 (p. 474).
• Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, ed. by Ernst Gamillscheg and Dieter Harlfinger, Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik, 3-1, ed. by Herbert Hunger (Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1981- ), I: Handschriften aus Bibliotheken Grossbritanniens, 3 vols, I, no. 178.

External links

• Harleian 5790 at the British Library