Minuscule 507

The codex contains the complete text of the four Gospels on 221 parchment leaves (size {{×|28.5|21}}). It is written in two columns per page, 26 lines per page.{{r|Aland}}

The text is divided according to numbers of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, with {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (titles) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (in Mark 234 sections, the last section in 16:9), with references to the Eusebian Canons (written in the same line as Ammonian Sections).{{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 = 246

}}{{r|Gregory}}In the same way are arranged codices: 112, 192, 198, 212, 267, 583, 584.

It contains (Epistula ad Carpianum later hand), Eusebian Canon tables, (prolegomena later hand), tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (tables of contents) are placed before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (partly later), incipits, Synaxarion (liturgical book with hagiographies), subscriptions at the end of each Gospel (some from later hand), {{lang|grc|ρηματα}}, and numbers of {{lang|grc|στιχοι}}.{{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 = 197

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

}}{{r|Scrivener}}

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden included it to the textual family K^x.{{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

}} Aland placed it in Category V.{{Cite book

| last1 = Aland

| first1 = 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 textual family K^x in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.

The manuscript was written by Abraham Teudas, a scribe. In 1724 (or 1727) the manuscript came from the Pantokratoros monastery to England and was presented to archbishop of Canterbury, William Wake, along with the codices 73, 74, 506-520. Wake presented it to Christ Church in Oxford. In 1732 John Walker slightly collated it for Bentley.{{r|Gregory}}

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament minuscule manuscripts by F. H. A. Scrivener (493) and C. R. Gregory (507).{{r|Scrivener}} Gregory saw it in 1883.{{r|Gregory}}

It is currently housed at Christ Church (Wake 21) in Oxford.{{r|Aland}}

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• George William Kitchin, [http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1103068 Catalogus codicum MSS. qui in bibliotheca Aedis Christi], Oxford 1867.
• Bernard de Montfaucon, [https://books.google.com/books?id=zHAsAAAAYAAJ Palaeographia graeca] (Paris, 1708), p. 46.

{{Manuscripts from William Wake collection}}

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Category:Greek New Testament minuscules

Category:11th-century biblical manuscripts