Minuscule 442

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Minuscule 442
Text	Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles
Date	12th/13th century
Script	Greek
Now at	University of Uppsala
Size	23 cm by 17 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	II

Minuscule 442 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), O¹⁸ (in the Soden numbering),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12 or 13th century.^[2] Formerly it was assigned by 68^a and 73^p. It shared all these designations with Minuscule 441, with which it now comprises a single codex.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Catholic epistles and 1 Corinthians 13:6 to Hebrews 13:25 of the Pauline epistles on 129 parchment leaves (23 cm by 17 cm). It is written in one column of 38-39 lines per page.^[2]

It contains the Euthalian Apparatus, subscriptions at the end of each book, στιχοι, and four prolegomena to the Hebrews. The biblical text is surrounded by a catena of Oecumenius.^[3][4]

Leaves 3-182 form another manuscript which is now bound in the same codex. These leaves have a duplicate portion (1 Cor 13:6-15:38) and some contradictory readings.^[3] Now they are classified as Minuscule 441.^[2]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is representative of the Alexandrian text-type with some alien readings. Aland placed it in Category II.^[5] It is one of the witnesses of the textual variant ὃς ἐφανερώθη (he was manifested) in Timothy 3:16. This reading is supported by such Alexandrian manuscripts as Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Ephraemi, Minuscule 33, Minuscule 225, and Minuscule 2127, but it is also confirmed by the manuscripts of the Western text-type like Codex Augiensis and Codex Boernerianus.^[6]

In 1 John 5:6 it has the textual variant δι' ὕδατος καὶ πνεύματος καὶ αἵματος (through water and spirit and blood) together with these manuscripts and versions: Codex Porphyrianus, 81, 88, 630, 915, 2492, arm, eth.^{[7][n 1]} Bart D. Ehrman identified this reading as Orthodox corruption.^[8]

History

The codex was bought at Venice (along with Minuscule 441 and Minuscule 899) by Johan Gabriel Sparwenfeld in 1678.^[4] It was examined by Johannes Belsheim and Caspar René Gregory (1891).^[3]

It is currently housed at the University of Uppsala (Gr. 1, p. 183-440) in Uppsala.^[2]

See also

Bible portal

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

Notes

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

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 d} Aland, K.; 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} Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894 (2005 reprint)). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 290. 
4. ^ ^{a b} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 270. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n283/mode/2up. 
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. 133. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
6. ^ NA26, p. 545; UBS4, p. 724.
7. ^ UBS3, p. 823.
8. ^ Bart D. Ehrman, The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1993, p. 60.

Further reading

• P. F. Aurivill, Codex Graecus Novi Foederis (Uppsala, 1783, 1786).
• Adolf Michaelis, Neue oriental und exeget. Bibliothek, 5. Teil, Göttingen 1788, p. 148-163.

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