Minuscule 437

New Testament manuscripts
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Minuscule 437
Text	Acts of the Apostles
Date	11th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Vatican Library
Size	25.8 cm by 21 cm
Category	none

Minuscule 437 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Α^πρ12 (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]

Description

The codex contains only the text of the Acts of the Apostles on 257 parchment leaves (25.8 cm by 21 cm) with a catena. The text is written in one column per page, in 24 lines per page.^[2][3]

Text

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

History

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 12th century, Gregory dated it to the 11th century.^[3]

The manuscript was examined by Birch and Scholz. It was designated by 74^a. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.^[3]

It is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Vat. gr. 760) in Rome.^[2]

See also

• 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. 64. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n75/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. 73. ISBN 3110119862. 
3. ^ ^{a b c} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 189, 270. http://www.archive.org/details/textkritikdesne00greggoog. 
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. 133, 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 270. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n283/mode/2up. 

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