{{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''500''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels † | script = Greek | date = 13th-century | found = 1849 | now at = British Library | cite = | size = {{×|20.6|14.8}} | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = full marginalia }}
'''Minuscule 500''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 323 (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 13th-century. Scrivener labeled it by number 587. The manuscript was adapted for liturgical use. It is lacunose.
== Description ==
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 244 parchment leaves (size {{×|20.6|14.8}}) with some lacunae (John 18:7-21; 19:40-21:25).<ref name = Scrivener/> The text is written in one column per page, 23 lines per page.<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>
The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (''titles'') at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 234 sections, the last in 16:9), (without references to the Eusebian Canons).<ref name = Gregory/>
It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''tables of contents'') before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), {{lang|grc|αναγνωσεις}}, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel.<ref name = Scrivener/><ref name = Gregory>{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes | publisher = J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 196 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n209/mode/2up }}</ref> It lacks the Eusebian tables but there is space for it. Synaxarion and Menologion, liturgical books with hagiographies, added by a later hand on paper.<ref name = Gregory/><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 = 259 }}</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>1</sup>.{{r|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 = 139 | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref> According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family K<sup>x</sup> in Luke 20. In Luke 1 and Luke 10 no profile was made because of illegible text.<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 | page = [https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/61 61] | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/61 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 | url-access = registration }}</ref>
== History ==
It is dated by the INTF to the 13th-century.{{r|Aland}}
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (587) and Gregory (500). It was examined by Bloomfield, Scrivener, and Gregory. Gregory saw it in 1883.{{r|Gregory}}
It is currently housed at the British Library (Add MS 17982) in London.{{r|Aland}}
== See also == {{Portal|Bible}}
* List of New Testament minuscules * Biblical manuscript * Textual criticism
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
== Further reading ==
* {{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes | publisher = J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 196 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n209/mode/2up }}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0500}} Category:Greek New Testament minuscules Category:13th-century biblical manuscripts Category:British Library additional manuscripts