Minuscule 504

The codex contains the complete text of the four Gospels on 287 parchment leaves (size {{×|20.5|16.5}}). It is written in one column per page, 20 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 = 77

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

The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 240 sections – the last section in 16:19), with references to the Eusebian Canons.{{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 = 4th

| volume = 1

| page = 258

}}

It contains Prolegomena, tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (tables of contents) are placed before every Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), liturgical books with hagiographies (Menologion, Synaxarion), and pictures (portraits of the four Evangelists).{{Cite book

| last = Gregory

| first = Caspar René

| author-link = Caspar René Gregory

| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes

| publisher = J.C. Hinrichs'che Buchhandlung

| year = 1900

| location = Leipzig

| volume = 1

| page = 196

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n209/mode/2up

}}

It has many marginal corrections of the text.

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K^x. 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 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 = [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 manuscript is dated by a colophon to the year 1033.{{r|Aland}}

The manuscript was written by Synesius, a priest. It was bought by H. Rodd in 1848.{{r|Gregory}}

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (585) and C. R. Gregory (504). It was examined by Scrivener, Gregory (in 1883), and Kirsopp Lake.{{r|Gregory}}

It is currently housed at the British Library (Add MS 17470) in London.{{r|Aland}}

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

{{Reflist}}

• Dated Greek Minuscule Manuscripts to the year 1200, ed. Kirsopp Lake and Silva Lake, vol. II, p. 69.
• Facsimiles of Manuscripts and Inscriptions, ed. E. A. Bond, E. M. Thompson and others, I (London, 1873–1883), p. 202.

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Category:Greek New Testament minuscules

Category:11th-century biblical manuscripts

Category:British Library additional manuscripts