{{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''285''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 15th century | found = | now at = Bibliothèque nationale de France | cite = | size = {{×|19.8|13.8}} | type = Byzantine, member of K<sup>r</sup> | cat = V | hand = | note = marginalia }}
'''Minuscule 285''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 527 (Soden),<ref name = Gregory1908>{{cite book|last=Gregory|first=Caspar René|author-link=Caspar René Gregory|title=Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament|url=https://archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n69/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=58}}</ref> is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 15th century.<ref name = Aland>{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = K. |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 = 64 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}</ref> It has marginalia.
== Description ==
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 246 parchment leaves ({{×|19.9|13.8}}). The text is written in one column per page, in 22 lines per page.<ref name = Aland/>
The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin.<ref name = Gregory/>
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, lists of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''lists of contents'') before each Gospel, subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, and pictures.<ref name = Gregory>{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 176 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n189/mode/2up }}</ref>
== 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<sup>r</sup>.<ref name = Wisse/> Aland placed it in Category V.<ref>{{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 = 138 | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref> According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents to the textual family K<sup>r</sup> in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It is weak member of textual cluster 20.<ref name = Wisse>{{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 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/58 58, 92] | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/58 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration }}</ref>
The text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is marked by an obelus.<ref name = Gregory/>
== History ==
The manuscript once belonged to Teller's. It was presented by Augustin Justinian to Giovanni Maria Catanaeo from Navara († 1529). It was used by Kuster's, who designated it as Paris 1.<ref name = Scrivener>{{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 = 4 | volume = 1 | page = 227 }}</ref> It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).<ref>{{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 | year = 1894 | location = London | volume = 1 | page = 225 }}</ref> It was examined by Wettstein, Griesbach, Scholz, and Gregory (1885).<ref name = Gregory/> It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.<ref>Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, ''Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris'' (Paris 1883), p. 70</ref> C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.<ref name = Gregory/>
The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 95) at Paris.<ref name = Aland/>
== See also ==
* List of New Testament minuscules * Biblical manuscript * Textual criticism
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
== Further reading ==
* Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, ''Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris'' (Paris 1883), p. 70.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0285}} Category:Greek New Testament minuscules Category:15th-century biblical manuscripts Category:Bibliothèque nationale de France collections