Minuscule 500
{{New Testament manuscript infobox
| form = Minuscule
| number = 500
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| text = Gospels †
| script = Greek
| date = 13th-century
| found = 1849
| now at = British Library
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| size = {{×|20.6|14.8}}
| type = Byzantine text-type
| cat = V
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| note = full marginalia
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Minuscule 500 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 323 (in the Soden numbering),{{cite book|last=Gregory|first=Caspar René|author-link=Caspar René Gregory|title=Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament|url=https://archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n77/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=66}} is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th-century. Scrivener labeled it by number 587. The manuscript was adapted for liturgical use. It is lacunose.
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 244 parchment leaves (size {{×|20.6|14.8}}) with some lacunae (John 18:7-21; 19:40-21:25). The text is written in one column per page, 23 lines per page.{{Cite book
| last = Aland
| first = K.
| 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 }}
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 in 16:9), (without references to the Eusebian Canons).
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), {{lang|grc|αναγνωσεις}}, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.{{Cite book
| last = Gregory
| first = Caspar René
| author-link = Caspar René Gregory
| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes
| publisher = J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung
| year = 1900
| location = Leipzig
| volume = 1
| page = 196
| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n209/mode/2up
}}
It lacks the Eusebian tables but there is space for it. Synaxarion and Menologion, liturgical books with hagiographies, added by a later hand on paper.{{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 = 259
}}
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K1.{{r|Wisse}} 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 belongs to the textual family Kx in Luke 20. In Luke 1 and Luke 10 no profile was made because of illegible text.{{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
}}
History
It is dated by the INTF to the 13th-century.{{r|Aland}}
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (587) and Gregory (500). It was examined by Bloomfield, Scrivener, and Gregory. Gregory saw it in 1883.{{r|Gregory}}
It is currently housed at the British Library (Add MS 17982) in London.{{r|Aland}}
See also
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References
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Further reading
- {{Cite book
| last = Gregory
| first = Caspar René
| author-link = Caspar René Gregory
| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes
| publisher = J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung
| year = 1900
| location = Leipzig
| volume = 1
| page = 196
| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n209/mode/2up
}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0500}}
Category:Greek New Testament minuscules