Minuscule 475

The codex contains the text of the Gospels on 272 parchment leaves (size ), with some lacunae (John 16:8-22). Other lacunae (Mark 3:6-21; Luke 12:48-12:2; John 18:27-21:25) were supplied on coarse cotton paper by a rude and later hand, perhaps from 14th or 15th century. According to Scrivener the supplied texts were very carelessly written. It is beautifully written but tampered by a later hand. In Luke 19:39 and Luke 22:70 occurs grammar form ειπαν. Fragments supplied by a later hand contain more itacisms than the manuscript itself. It has N ephelkystikon. == Text ==

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx. According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Kx in Luke 1. In Luke 10 and Luke 20 it belongs to the textual cluster 475. In Luke 19-20 it has very good text, very close to the codex Sangallensis, and other old Uncials. == History ==

F. H. A. Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 13th century, C. R. Gregory dated it to the 11th century. Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 11th century. The manuscript was once in Constantinople. It was brought from the East to England by Carlyle (1759-1804), professor of Arabic, from Syria, along with the manuscripts 470, 471, 472, 473, 474, 488. The manuscript was examined by J. Farrer in 1804, Bloomfield, Scrivener, and Gregory. Scrivener collated and published its text in 1852. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (515) and Gregory (475). Gregory saw it in 1883. It is currently housed at the Lambeth Palace (1192) in London. == See also ==