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New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionariesMinuscule 452 Name Pius II Text New Testament (except Gospels) Date 12th century Script Greek Now at Vatican Library Size 16.8 cm by 13 cm Type Byzantine Category V Minuscule 452 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 206 (in the Soden numbering),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.[2] Formerly it was labelled by 80a, 91p and 42r.[3]
Contents
Description
The codex contains the text of the New Testament except Gospels on 327 parchment leaves (16.8 cm by 13 cm). The text is written in one column per page, in 21-22 lines per page.[2] The letters are written above lines.[4]
It contains Prolegomena, the tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each book, numbers of the κεφαλαια (chapters) at the margin, the τιτλοι (titles) at the top, subscriptions at the end of each book, στιχοι, and the Euthalian Apparatus.[4]
The order of books: Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles (Hebrews before 1 Timothy), and Book of Revelation.[4]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[5]
History
The manuscript was held in the Library of St. Silvester at the time of Pope Pius II. It was deposited to the Vatican Library in time of Pope Clement XI.[4]
The manuscript was examined by Birch, Scholz, Duchesne, Stevenson, and C. R. Gregory (1886).[4] It was slightly collated by Scholz.[3] Hoskier collated text of the Apocalypse.
It is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Reg. gr. Pii II 50) in Rome.[2]
See also
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 290.
- ^ a b c d e Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 271. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n283/mode/2up.
- ^ 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.
Further reading
- H. C. Hoskier, Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse: Collation of All Existing Available Greek Documents with the Standard Text of Stephen’s Third Edition Together with the Testimony of Versions, Commentaries and Fathers. vol. 1 (London: Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., 1929), pp. 110-114.
External links
Categories:- Greek New Testament minuscules
- 12th-century biblical manuscripts
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