Minuscule 485

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 255 parchment leaves (size {{×|19.5|15.3}}) with some lacunae (Luke 5:22-9:32; 11:31-13:25; 17:25-18:3; John 8:14-21:25). The text is written in one column per page, 23-25 lines per page.{{r|Aland}}

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. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in red ink), whose numbers are given at the margin, but there is no references to the Eusebian Canons.{{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

}}

It used capital letters at the beginning of each section.

It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (tables of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), Synaxarion (list of Saints), Menologion (saint days), numbers of {{lang|grc|στιχοι}}, and pictures (before each Gospel).{{r|Gregory}}

The breathings and accents are complete but very inaccurate (e.g. Matthew 13:2.33; 24:41; 25:6; Mark 5:3.4; 6:26; Luke 24:6; John 7:30). There is no ι subscriptum, but adscriptum (Matthew 26:52; John 1:40.41), ν εφελκυστικον gets very frequent in the manuscript, and is often destroyed by secunda manu (second hand), even so often as to produce an hiatus (e.g. John 5:25; 7:6.27).{{Cite book

| last = Scrivener

| first = Frederick Henry Ambrose

| title = A 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}}{{rp|LIV-LV}} A later hand is very busy in the margin, supplying the omissions through homoeoteleuton of the first scribe, or altering the original readings. There are more itacisms than in many other manuscripts.{{rp|LV}}

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-link1 = 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

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

| url-access = limited

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

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family K^x in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.{{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 = 61

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

| isbn = 0-8028-1918-4

| url-access = registration

}}

The manuscript was held in Escorial, then it belonged to Charles Burney, as codices 480, 481, 482, 484, and ℓ 184. It was purchased for the British Museum in 1818.{{r|Scrivener}}

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener, who thoroughly it examined and collated. Scrivener published its text in 1852.{{rp|LIV-LV, as s}}

It is currently housed at the British Library (Burney MS 23) in London.{{r|Aland}}

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| last = Scrivener

| first = Frederick Henry Ambrose

| title = A 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–LV}} (as s)

• R. Waltz, [http://www.skypoint.com/members/waltzmn/Manuscripts1-500.html#m485 Minuscule 485] at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism
• [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=1662&CollID=18&NStart=23 Minuscule 485] at the British Library

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