Minuscule 451

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Minuscule 451
Text	Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles
Date	11th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Vatican Library
Size	19.2 cm by 13.9 cm
Type	mixed, Byzantine
Category	III, V

Minuscule 451 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 178 (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 79^a and 90^p.^[3]

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 161 parchment leaves (19.2 cm by 13.9 cm) with two lacunae (2 Cor 11:15-12:1; Eph 1:9-Heb 13:25). It is written in one column per page, in 30 lines per page.^[2] The letters are written above lines.

It contains Prolegomena, lectionary markings at the margin, Synaxarion, Menologion, Euthalian Apparatus, and στιχοι.^[4]

The order of books: Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles.^[4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is mixed in the Pauline epistles, elsewhere the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category III in Pauline epistles and in Category V elsewhere.^[5] Textually it is very close to the codices 330, 2400, 2492.^[6]

Some unique readings of the codex

Acts 13:33

• εν τω ψαλμω τω δευτερω γεγραπται (it is written in the second Psalm) – Ε Π 049 88 104 330 436 614 629 1241 1505 1877 2127 2412 2492 2495 Byz;

Acts 18:26

• την του θεου οδον along with P, Ψ, 049, 0142, 104, 330, 1241, 1877, 2127, 2492, Byz, Lect;^[7]

Romans 4:11

• λογισθηναι αυτον — 451;
• λογισθηναι και — א* A B 81 330 630 1739 1881 Byz;
• λογισθηναι — 2492

Romans 15:19 it supports πνευματος θεου αγιου along with Minuscule 330

πνευματος θεου

πνευματος αγιου;^[8]

Romans 16:25-27 is following 14:23, as in Codex Angelicus Codex Athous Lavrensis, 0209, Minuscule 181 326 330 460 614 1241 1877 1881 1984 1985 2492 2495.^[9]

In 1 Corinthians 7:5 it has unique reading τη προσευχη και νηστεια (prayer and fasting); the reading is supported only by 451, and John of Damascus. Other readings:

τη προσευχη (prayer) – $\mathfrak{P}$¹¹, $\mathfrak{P}$⁴⁶, א*, A, B, C, D, G, P, Ψ, 33, 81, 104, 181, 629, 630, 1739, 1877, 1881, 1962, it vg, cop, arm, eth

τη νηστεια και τη προσευχη (fasting and prayer) – א^c, K, L, 88, 326, 436, 614, 1241, 1984, 1985, 2127, 2492, 2495, Byz, Lect, syr^p,h, goth.^[10]

In Ephesians 5:9 it reads πνευματος along with: P46 D^c Κ Ψ 88 104 181 326 436 614 630 1241 1739^mg 1877 1985 2495 Byz ℓ 809 syr^h; other manuscripts have φωτος — P49 א A B D* F G 33 81 330 1739* 1881 1962 cop^sa Lectionaries it vg syr^p, syr^pal cop^{sa, bo}.

History

The manuscript was examined by Birch, Scholz, Stornalojo, and C. R. Gregory (1886).^[4]

It is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Urb. gr. 3) 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} 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. ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 290. 
4. ^ ^{a b c} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 271. 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. ^ Colwell E. C., The Four Gospels of Karahissar I, History and Text, Chicago, 1936.
7. ^ UBS3, p. 491.
8. ^ UBS3, p. 572.
9. ^ UBS3, pp. 576-577.
10. ^ UBS3, p. 591.

Further reading

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

External links

• Minuscule 451 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism