Minuscule 400

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Minuscule 400
Name	Cod. Berolinensis
Text	Matthew, Acts, Cath., Paul
Date	12th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Vatican Library
Size	12.4 cm by 9.4 cm
Category	none

Minuscule 400 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 50 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.^[2]

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Matthew 12:29-13:2, Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 249 parchment leaves (12.4 cm by 9.4 cm) with some lacunae (Matthew 1:1-23:27). The text is written in one column per page, in 14-15 lines per page.^[2]

It contains the Euthalian Apparatus.^[3]

Lacunae

Acts, 1:11-2:11; Romans 1:1-27; 1 Corinthians 14:12-15:46; 2 Corinthians 1:1-8; 5:4-19; 1 Timothy 4:1-Hebrews 1:9.^[3]

Text

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

History

The manuscript was damaged by fire and water.^[5] It once belonged to Henry Benzil, Archbishop of Uppsala († 1758), then to Laurence Benzelstierna, Bishop of Arosen.^[3] It was described by C. Aurivill (1802),^[6] collated by G. T. Pappelbaum (1815).^[7] The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794–1852).^[8] C. R. Gregory saw it in 1887.^[3]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Chis. R IV 6 (gr. 6) in Rome.^[2]

See also

Bible portal

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 62. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n73/mode/2up. 
2. ^ ^{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. 71. ISBN 3110119862. 
3. ^ ^{a b c d} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 186. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n199/mode/2up. 
4. ^ Aland, Kurt; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
5. ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 235. 
6. ^ Car. Aurivill, Recensio codd MSS ab Benz in oriente collectorum, Upsala 1802, p. 15.
7. ^ Geo. Thph. Pappelbaum, Cod ms Gr u. s. w. (Berlin 1815).
8. ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1. London. p. 225. 

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 186. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n199/mode/2up. 

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