Minuscule 450

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Minuscule 450
Text	Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles
Date	11th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Vatican Library
Size	25.5 cm by 18 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V

Minuscule 450 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 63 (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 labelled by 78^a and 89^p. The manuscript is lacunose.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 177 parchment leaves (25.5 cm by 18 cm) with two lacunae (2 Corinthians 11:15-12:1; Ephesians 1:9-Hebrews 13:25). The text is written in one column per page, in 21 lines per page.^[2] The letters are written above lines.

It contains Prolegomena, the Euthalian Apparatus, subscriptions at the end of each book, and στιχοι.^[3]

The order of books: Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles.^[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[4]

History

The manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 11th century.^[2]

The manuscript traced to Strasbourg in the possession of H. Boecler, and identified with 201.^[5] It was examined by Bianchini, Andreas Birch, Scholz, and Henry Stevenson. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.^[3]

Formerly it was labelled by 78^a and 89^p.^[5] In 1908 Gregory gave for it number 450.

It is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Vat. Reg. 29) 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. 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. 74. ISBN 3110119862. 
3. ^ ^{a b c} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 271. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n283/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. ^ ^{a b} 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. 290. 

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 271. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n283/mode/2up. 

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