Minuscule 421

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Minuscule 421
Name	Vind. Caes. Ness. 303
Text	Acts, CE, Paul
Date	ca. 1300
Script	Greek
Now at	Austrian National Library
Size	18.8 cm by 14 cm
Category	none
Hand	carefully written

Minuscule 421 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 259 (in Soden's numbering),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated to year ca. 1300.^[2] Formerly it was designated by 64^a and 69^p. Marginal equipment is not complete.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 279 parchment leaves (18.8 cm by 14 cm). The text is written in one column per page, in 22 lines per page.^[2]

It contains Prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each book, lectionary equipment at the margin, subscriptions at the end of each book, Synaxarion, and Menologion.^[3][4]

Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of this codex in any Category.^[5]

History

Gregory dated the manuscript to the 12th century.^[3]

The manuscript was carefully written by John Tarchaniota. Auger Ghislain de Busbecq brought it, together with codex 425, from Constantinople to Vienna. The manuscript was examined by Treschow, Alter, and Birch.^[4] Alter used it in his edition of NT, vol 2, pp. 789-853. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1887.^[3] Formerly it was designated by 64^a and 69^p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 421 to it.^[1]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Austrian National Library (Theol. gr. 303) in Vienna.^[2]

See also

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

References

Bible portal

1. ^ ^{a b} Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 63. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n73/mode/2up. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} Aland, Kurt; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 72. ISBN 3110119862. 
3. ^ ^{a b c} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 269. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n281/mode/2up. 
4. ^ ^{a b} Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894 (2005 reprint)). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 290. 
5. ^ 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. 

Further reading

• Francis Karl Alter, Novum Testamentum Graecum, ad Codicem Vindobonensem Graece expressum: Varietam Lectionis addidit Franciscus Carolus Alter, 2 vols. 8vo, Vienna, 1787, vol. 2, pp. 789-853.

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