Minuscule 482


Minuscule 482, ε 1017, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1285.
Scrivener labelled it by number 570. The manuscript has complex context, but faded in parts. The text exhibits more numerous and bolder textual variants than usual manuscripts of the four Gospels. Marginal apparatus is given fully.
The manuscript was written by an inaccurate copyist, who made a large number of errors. Liturgical books, Synaxarion and Menologion, were added by a later hand.

Description

The whole codex contains 317 parchment leaves. The leaves are arranged in small quarto. The parchment is fine and thin. It has several paper flying leaves at the beginning and one at the end. Folio 318 is a parchment flyleaf.
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on folios 6v-288v, without any lacunae. The manuscript has faded in parts.
The writing is in one column per page, 22-23 lines per page.
The margins are wide, the dimensions of text are 14.0 by 9.0 cm. It contains the decorated headpieces and the decorated initial letters at the beginning of each Gospel. The large initial letters at the beginning are written in gold and blue, small initials in brown. The titles of the Gospels are written in uncial letters in gold. The breathings and accents are given fully but carelessly written, sometimes varying even in the same verse. According to Scrivener it was written by "clear but inelegant hand". The nomina sacra are written in an abbreviated way.
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, whose numbers are given at the margin of the text, and their τιτλοι at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, whose numbers are written at the margin, with references to the Eusebian Canons. The references are written below the numbers of the Ammonian Sections. Number of sections is usual.
It contains the Eusebian Canon tables at the beginning, tables of the κεφαλαια before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin, and portraits of the four Evangelists before each Gospel.
The Church lessons are marked and the days on which they are used. Each lesson is begins with a capital letter. In result the manuscript was adapted for liturgical use. Synaxarion and Menologion of Saint days were added by later hand, Synaxarion on parchment, Menologion on paper.
The text of the Gospels has many corrections made by two hands. Corrections were made by the same hand as Synaxarion and Menologion.
N ephelkystikon appears 20 times in Matthew 1-15. There are a few occurrences or the error of itacism, but some of them are unusual. The corrections made by a second hand contain even more itacisms than the original text. It does not mean, however, that the original scribe was accurate copyist.
The original scribe made many errors of homoioteleuton, and rare grammar forms, transpositions of words, and synonymous words are constantly substituted. There are also many other errors. There are also inconsistencies in spelling, e.g. city Nazareth is spelled in two ways, as ναζαρεθ in John 1:46 and as ναζαρετ in John 1:47; κραββατον in Mark 2 and κραβαττον in John 5. Scrivener stated "the scribe was far from accurate copyist".

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the family Ikc. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Kx in Luke 1. In Luke 10 and Luke 20 it belongs to the family Πa.
Although it has element of the family Π usually it is not classified as a member of that family, as it has also some Kx element.
It has many singular and unusual readings. Scrivener gave a list of the singular readings of the codex: Matthew 7:18; 8:22; 10:30; 15:23; 17:25; 22:6; 25:17; 26:7.10.22; 27:7; Mark 1:16; 5:35.38; 7:18; 8:7; 10:29; 13:27; Luke 1:21.75; 4:24; 5:5; 6:15.16; 7:11; 8:32; 10:32; 11:52; 14:32; 16:25; 18:32; 22:64; John 2:11; 4:21.39.42; 10:12; 13:24; 14:25; 16:14; 17:4; 18:20. In Mark 13:27 it has unusual additional reading αγγελους μου μετα σαλπιγγος φωνης μεγαλης, the reading was derived from Matthew 24:31, and does not occur in any other manuscript. It has addition in Luke 6:16.
In some passages codex agrees with the oldest uncial manuscripts, like Codex Vaticanus, Codex Ephraemi, Codex Bezae, Codex Cyprius, Codex Regius, Codex Campianus, and Codex Dublinensis. According to F. H. A. Scrivener it is close textually to minuscule 489, which belongs to Πa.
; Singular readings
The words before the brackets are the readings of Textus Receptus, the words after the brackets are the readings of the codex.
; Old-Byzantine readings

History

There is a colophon on the page 592, which states: ετελειωθη κατα τον μαιον μηνα εις τας τριακοντα ημερα τεταρτη της ενισταμενης ετους ςψζγ ινδικτ ιγ followed by a few iambics with name of scribe. It means, the manuscript was written on 30 May of the year 6793 of the era of Constantinople. This date was changed by a later hand. Scrivener stated: "some silly person has changed the Ψ into Υ, which would throw it back to A.D. 985." The name of scribe was Theophilus, a monk.
The place of origin of the codex is unknown. It is believed that Constantinople can be possible place of its origin. On the folio 7 there is erased Greek inscription from the 16th century.
The manuscript once belonged to Charles Burney, classical scholar, along with codices: Minuscule 480, 481, 484, 485, and ℓ 184. It is unknown in which way Burney acquired the manuscript, but after his death it was proved that some manuscripts he had stolen from the university library in Cambridge. After his death it was purchased to the British Museum in 1818 from his son Charles Parr Burney. The manuscript was rebound in 1964.
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 and C. R. Gregory. Gregory saw it in 1883.
It is currently housed at the British Library in London.