Minuscule 483 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 376 (in the Soden numbering), is a

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of the

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, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1285 (altered to 985). It contains liturgical books with hagiographies:

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and

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. Scrivener labelled it by number 543. The manuscript has complex contents.

Description

The codex contains the text of the

except Book of Revelation on 360 parchment leaves. It is written in one column per page, 22-23 lines per page. The text is divided according to the (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their (''titles''). The text of the Gospels is also divided according to the Ammonian Sections. It contains the

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, Eusebian Canon tables, tables of the (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use),

(before Acts and all Epistles), and

(after Jude). It has many corrections made by two hands.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the

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. Aland placed it in Category V. According to Scrivener it is different from codex 484 – both written by the same scribe – only in 183 places (errors of itacism excluded). According to

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it represents the textual family Family K^x in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. It belongs to the textual cluster 74. In Luke 20 it was corrected to Family K^r. It has many changes made in the text. The corrected text in Luke represents the textual family Family K^r.

History

The manuscript was written by Theodorus Hagiopetrita (as

Minuscule 74 Minuscule 74 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 321 ( von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. It was written in 1291 or 1292. Some leaves of the codex were lost.K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. ...

, 484) in 1295 CE. It once belonged to

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, then to Duke's Sussex library. In 1845 it belonged to the Wm. Pickering, the bookseller. Scrivener in 1894 noticed "its present locality is unknown". The same wrote Gregory in 1900: "Heute verschollen". It was found later in U.S.A. The manuscript was examined and collated by

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, who published its text in 1852. It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (543) and Gregory (483). Currently it is housed at the

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(Chapin Libr., Cod. De Ricci, no. 1) in

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