Minuscule 424

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Minuscule 424
Text	Acts, CE, and Paul
Date	11th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Austrian National Library
Size	18.2 cm by 14 cm
Type	mixed, Byzantine
Category	III, V

Minuscule 424 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Ο¹² (in the Soden numbering),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.^[2] Formerly it was designated by 66^a and 67^p.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 353 parchment leaves (18.2 cm by 14 cm). The text is written in one columns per page, in 22 lines per page.^[2]

It contains Prolegomena (to the Acts and Pauline epistles), Synaxarion, Menologion, subscriptions at the end of each sacred book, and pictures. The Catholic epistles have subscriptions with numbers of stichoi.^[3] Three different hands made some corrections.^[4]

According to the subscription at the end of the Epistle to the Romans: επιστολη προς Ρωμαιους εγραφη δια Φοιβης διακονου της εν Κεγχρειαις εκκλησιας.^[5]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type except Pauline epistles. Aland placed it in Category V. The text of the Pauline epistles has higher value, Aland placed it in Category III.^[6] It is often agree with the codex 1739.

In Acts 24:6b-8a it has unique reading εκρατησαμεν και κατα τον ημετερον νομον ηβουληθημεν κριναι κατα τον ημετερον νομον ελθων δε ο χιλιαρχος Λυσιας βια πολλη εκ των χειρων ημων αφιλετο και προς δε απεστειλε κελευσας τους κατηγορους αυτου ερχεσθαι προς σε.^[7]

In a margin notes for the text 1 John 5:6 corrector c added reading δι' ὕδατος καὶ αἵματος καὶ πνεύματος (through water and blood and spirit) together with the manuscripts: Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Alexandrinus, 104, 614, 1739^c, 2412, 2495, ℓ 598^m, syr^h, cop^sa, cop^bo, Origen.^{[8][n 1]} Bart D. Ehrman identified this textual variant as Orthodox corrupt reading.^[9]

History

The manuscript once belonged to Arsenius, Archbishop of Momembasia, then to Sebastian Tengnagel and John Sambue. It was examined by Treschow, Alter, Birch, and Griesbach.^[4] Alter used it in his edition of the Greek New Testament (vol. 2, 415-558). C. R. Gregory saw it in 1887.^[3] Formerly it was designated by 66^a and 67^p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 424 to it.^[1]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Austrian National Library (Theol. gr. 302) in Vienna.^[2]

See also

Bible portal

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism
• Family 1739

Notes

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

References

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, K.; 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} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 268. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n281/mode/2up. 
4. ^ ^{a b} Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1861). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament (1 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 192. 
5. ^ NA26, p. 440
6. ^ 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. 132. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
7. ^ UBS3, p. 513.
8. ^ UBS3, p. 823.
9. ^ Bart D. Ehrman, The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1993, p. 60.

Further reading

• Andreas Christian Hwiid, Libellus criticus de indole codicis ms. Graeci Novi Testamenti bibliothecae Caesareo-Vindobonensis Lambecii XXXIV. Accessit textus Latinus ss Antehieronymianus ex codice Laudiano, Kopenhagen 1785.
• J. Neville Birdsall, A Byzantine Calendar from the Menology of two Biblical Mss, Analecta Bollandiana 84 (Brussels, 1966), pp. 29-57.

External links

• Minuscule 424 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism