Minuscule 463 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.[1] Formerly it was labeled by 103a and 118p.[2]

Minuscule 463
New Testament manuscript
TextActs of the Apostles
Date12th century
ScriptGreek
Now atState Historical Museum
Size30.2 cm by 22 cm
Categorynone

Description edit

The codex contains scholia to the Acts and Epistles, with the entire text for Acts of the Apostles 1:1-9:12 on 235 parchment leaves (30.2 cm by 22 cm), with some lacunae. The text is written in two columns per page, 39 lines per page.[1]

It contains prolegomena, Synaxarion, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) at the beginning, and scholia to the Acts, Catholic and the Pauline epistles.[2][3]

The order of books: Acts, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles.[3]

Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.[4]

In 1 John 5:6 it has textual variant δι' ὕδατος καὶ πνεύματος (through water and spirit) together with the manuscripts 43, 241, 945, 1241, 1831, 1877*, 1891.[5][n 1]

History edit

The manuscript came from the Iviron monastery at Mount Athos.[2]

The manuscript was examined by Matthaei and Treu. It is currently housed at the State Historical Museum (V. 95, S. 346) in Moscow.[1]

Formerly it was labeled by 103a and 118p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 463 to it.[6]

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ For the other textual variants of this verse see: Textual variants in the First Epistle of John.

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 75. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
  2. ^ a b c Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 292.
  3. ^ a b Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 273.
  4. ^ Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  5. ^ UBS3, p. 823.
  6. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 65.

Further reading edit

  • C. F. Matthaei, Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine (Riga, 1782-1788), p. 269f, XVI, XXVII.
  • Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbiblisi und Erevan, Texte und Untersuchungen 91 (Berlin, 1966), pp. 285–288.

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