Minuscule 459

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Minuscule 459
Text	New Testament (except Gospels)
Date	1092
Script	Greek
Now at	Laurentian Library
Size	26 cm by 19.5 cm
Type	mixed, Byzantine
Category	III, V
Hand	beautifully written

Minuscule 459 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 104 (in the Soden numbering),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1092.^[2] Formerly it was labeled by 89^a and 99^p.^[3]

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles, and Book of Revelation on 276 parchment leaves (26 cm by 19.5 cm). The text is written in one column per page, in 27 lines per page.^[2]

It contains Prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each book, numbers of the κεφαλαια (chapters) at the margin, the τιτλοι (titles) at the top, lectionary markings at the margin, subscriptions at the end of each book, στιχοι, and treatise of Pseudo-Dorotheus on the Seventy disciples and twelve apostles (as codices 82, 93, 177, 613, 617).^[4]

The order of books: Acts, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles.^[4] The ending of the Epistle to the Romans has the order of verses: 16:23; 16:25-27; 16:24 (as in codices 025 33 104 256 263 365 436 1319 1573 1852 Peshitta arm).^[5]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a mixed in the Pauline epistles nad the Byzantine text-type elsewhere. Aland placed it in Category III in the Pauline epistles and in Category V elsewhere.^[6]

History

The manuscript was examined by Birch, Scholz, Biscioni, and C. R. Gregory (1886).^[4] It was slightly collated by Scholz.^[3]

Formerly it was labeled by 89^a and 99^p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 459 to it.^[1]

It is currently housed at the Laurentian Library (Plutei IV. 32) in Florence.^[2]

See also

Bible portal

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

References

1. ^ ^{a b} 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. 74. ISBN 3110119862. 
3. ^ ^{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. 291. 
4. ^ ^{a b c} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 272. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n285/mode/2up. 
5. ^ UBS3, p. 576.
6. ^ 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. 

Further reading

• Biscioni, Bibliothecae Mediceo-Laurentianae catalogus, Florence 1752, vol. 2, 73.

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