Minuscule 484

The codex contains the complete text of the four Gospels on 258 thick paper leaves (size {{×|34|25}}). The leaves are arranged in octavo (eight leaves in quire).Henri Omont, [http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/bec_0373-6237_1884_num_45_1_447248 Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum], Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes, 45 (1884), p. 344. It is written in one column per page, 23-25 lines per page.{{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 }}{{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

}}

In some parts the text is almost illegible.{{Cite book|last=Scrivener|first=Frederick Henry Ambrose |title=Full and Exact Collation of About Twenty Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels|url=https://archive.org/stream/MN41408ucmf_5#page/n53/mode/2up|year=1853|publisher=John W. Parker and Son|location=Cambridge and London|pages= LII–LIV}}

The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (titles) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 234 sections, the last section in 16:9), but without references to the Eusebian Canons.{{r|Gregory}}

It contains the prolegomena, tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (tables of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), incipits, liturgical books with hagiographies (Synaxarion and Menologion), subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, numbers of {{lang|grc|στιχοι}}, and pictures.{{r|Gregory}}{{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

| edition = 4

| volume = 1

| page = 257

}}

It is a fine copy, but much damaged.{{r|Scrivener}}

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. 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 = 139

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

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents to the textual family Family K^x in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. It belongs to the textual cluster 74.{{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

| pages = [https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/61 61, 92]

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

| isbn = 0-8028-1918-4

| url-access = registration

}} According to Scrivener it is different from the codex 483 — written by the same scribe — only in 183 places (errors of itacisms excluded).{{r|Scrivener}}

The manuscript has several remarkable and unusual readings — from the point of view Textus Receptus — such as in Matthew 9:22; 18:30; 20:6; Mark 3:32; 5:22; 11:26; 12:12.{{Cite book |last=Scrivener |first=Frederick Henry Ambrose |title=Full and Exact Collation of About Twenty Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels |url=https://archive.org/stream/MN41408ucmf_5#page/n55/mode/2up |year=1853 |publisher=John W. Parker and Son |location=Cambridge and London |pages=LIV}}

According to the colophon on folio 258, the manuscript was written by monk Theodoros Hagiographita in the 6800 year from creation of the world, meaning in 1292 CEHenri Omont, [http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/bec_0373-6237_1884_num_45_1_447248 Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum], Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes, 45 (1884), p. 349. in Thessalonica, monastery of Philokalos. According to the note from 14th century on folio 8 verso, it was presented by monk Dositheos, son of the grammaticus Demetrios of Thessalonica, to the archon Alexios. Giovanni Saibante, of Verona, was its owner in the first half of the 18th century.[http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7306&CollID=18&NStart=21 Codex Burney 21] at the British Library

It once belonged to Charles Burney, as codices 480, 481, 482, 485, and ℓ 184. It was purchased for the British Museum in 1818.

The manuscript was examined and collated by Scrivener, who published its text in 1852. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (571) and Gregory (484). Scrivener collated its text. It was examined by Henri Omont.Henri Omont, [http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/bec_0373-6237_1884_num_45_1_447248 Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum], Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes, 45 (1884), pp. 344, 349.

It is currently housed at the British Library (Burney MS 21) in London.{{r|Aland}}

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• {{Cite book|last=Scrivener|first=Frederick Henry Ambrose |title=Full and Exact Collation of About Twenty Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels|url=https://archive.org/stream/MN41408ucmf_5#page/n53/mode/2up|year=1853|publisher=John W. Parker and Son|location=Cambridge and London|pages= LII–LIV}} (as r)
• Henri Omont, [http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/bec_0373-6237_1884_num_45_1_447248 Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum], Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes, 45 (1884), pp. 344, 349.

• [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7306&CollID=18&NStart=21 Codex Burney 21] at the British Library

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