{{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''490''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels † | script = Greek | date = 11th-century | found = 1825 | now at = British Library | cite = | size = {{×|25.3|19.7}} | type = Byzantine text-type/mixed | cat = V | hand = | note = K<sup>x</sup> }}

'''Minuscule 490''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 106 (in the Soden numbering),<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/n77/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=66}}</ref> is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th-century.<ref name = Aland>{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = K. | author-link = Kurt Aland |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 = 76 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}</ref> Scrivener labeled it by number 574.<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 | volume = 1 | page = 257 }}</ref> The manuscript is lacunose.

== Description ==

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 192 parchment leaves (size {{×|25.3|19.7}}) with some lacunae. The text is written in two columns per page, 27 lines per page.<ref name = Aland/>

The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, and the {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (''titles'') at the top. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 234 Sections, the last in 16:9), with references to the Eusebian Canons.<ref name = Gregory>{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = J.C. Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 195 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n207/mode/2up }}</ref>

It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, Eusebian Canon tables, tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (in red), and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.<ref name = Gregory/>

== Text ==

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. 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 = 139 | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref> According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family K<sup>x</sup> in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20. It belongs to 51 manuscripts which are, according to Hermann von Soden, related to the Byzantine commentated text (codices 53, 902).<ref>{{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/50 50, 61] | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/50 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration }}</ref>

== History ==

The manuscript once belonged to Claudius James Rich, consul in Baghdad. It was bought in 1825 for the British Museum.<ref name = Scrivener/>

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (574) and Gregory (490). It was examined by Scrivener<ref>F. H. A. Scrivener, ''A Full and Exact Collation of About 20 Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels'' (Cambridge and London, 1852), p. LV. (as w)</ref> and Bloomfield.<ref name = Gregory/>

It is currently housed at the British Library (Add MS 7141) in London.<ref name = Aland/>

== See also ==

{{Portal|Bible}} * List of New Testament minuscules * Biblical manuscript * Textual criticism

== References ==

{{Reflist}}

== Further reading ==

* T. K. Abbott, ''Hermathena'' XVIII (1892), pp.&nbsp;233–234.

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