Minuscule 481

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 218 parchment leaves (size {{×|22.4|17.7}}). It is written in one column per page, 22 lines per page.{{Cite book

| last = Gregory

| first = Caspar René

| author-link = Caspar René Gregory

| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments

| publisher = J.C. Hinrichs

| year = 1900

| location = Leipzig

| volume = 1

| page = 194

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n207/mode/2up

}}{{Cite book

| last = Aland

| first = Kurt

| author-link = Kurt Aland

|author2=M. Welte |author3=B. Köster |author4=K. Junack

| title = Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments

| publisher = Walter de Gruyter

| year = 1994

| location = Berlin, New York

| page = 76

| isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}

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. The half page of writing erased at the end of the Gospel of John.F. H. A. Scrivener, A Full and Exact Collation of About 20 Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels (Cambridge and London, 1852), p. XLVIII.

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, {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (chapters), etc. The only traces of which are red capitals in the marginal mark at John 13:31.{{r|FullandExact}} 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. Itacisms are more frequent than in Codex 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).{{r|FullandExact}}

Two inscriptions state that it belonged in 1809 to the Library of St. Laurence in the Escurial.{{r|FullandExact}}

It contains portraits of Evangelists.

File:Burney 19 (Luke 1).jpg

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family I^κ (Family Π). Aland placed it in Category V.{{Cite book

| last = Aland

| first = Kurt

| author-link = Kurt Aland

| last2 = Aland

| first2 = Barbara

| author-link2 = Barbara Aland

| others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.)

| title = The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism

| publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

| year = 1995

| location = Grand Rapids

| page = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n161 139]

| url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt

| url-access = limited

| isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family K^x in Luke 10 and Luke 20. In Luke 1 it belongs to the family Π^a.{{Cite book

| last = Wisse

| first = Frederik

| title = The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke

| publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

| year = 1982

| location = Grand Rapids

| page = [https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/61 61]

| url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/61

| isbn = 0-8028-1918-4

| url-access = registration

}}

The text of Luke 22:43.44 is marked by an obelus (÷).{{r|FullandExact}}

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 10th-century.{{r|Aland}}

The manuscript was held in Escorial, then it belonged to Charles Burney, as codices 480, 482, 484, 485, and ℓ 184.{{r|Gregory}} It was purchased for the British Museum in 1818.{{Cite book

| last = Scrivener

| first = Frederick Henry Ambrose

| author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

|author2=Edward Miller

| title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament

| publisher = George Bell & Sons

| year = 1894

| location = London

| volume = 1

| page = 257

}}

The manuscript was examined and collated by Scrivener, who published its text in 1852.{{r|Gregory}} The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (569). Gregory gave number 481 to it.{{r|Gregory|Scrivener}} Gregory saw it in 1883.{{r|Gregory}}

It is currently housed at the British Library (Burney 19) in London.{{r|Aland}}

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• {{Cite book | author = F. H. A. Scrivener | title = A Full and Exact Collation of About 20 Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels | location = Cambridge and London | year = 1852 | page = XLVIII}} (as o)
• Frederic G. Kenyon, Facsimiles of Biblical Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1900), VI

{{Commons category|Minuscule 481 (GA)}}

• [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8097&CollID=18&NStart=19 Burney 19] at the British Library

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