Minuscule 462

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Minuscule 462
Text	Acts, Cath., Pauline epistles
Date	13th century
Script	Greek
Now at	State Historical Museum
Size	24 cm by 19.2 cm
Category	none
Hand	carefully written

Minuscule 462 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 359 (in the Soden numbering),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on a paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.^[2] Formerly it was labelled by 101^a and 116^p.^[3] It was adapted for liturgical use.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 240 paper leaves (24 cm by 19.2 cm). It is carefully written in one column per page, 25 lines per page.^[2]

It contains prolegomena, Synaxarion, and scholia to the Acts, and lectionary markings at the margin of the Epistles for liturgical reading.^[3]

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

Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.^[5]

According to the subscription at the end of the Epistle to the Romans, the Letter was written προς Ρωμαιους εγραφη απο Κορινθου δια Φοιβης της διακονου; the same subscription have manuscripts: 42, 90, 216, 339, 466, 642;^[6]

History

The manuscript was examined by Matthaei and Treu. It is currently housed at the State Historical Museum (V. 24, S. 346) in Moscow.^[2]

Formerly it was labelled by 101^a and 116^p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 462 to it.^[1]

See also

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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, K.; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 75. ISBN 3110119862. 
3. ^ ^{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. 292. 
4. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 273. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n285/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. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
6. ^ Bruce M. Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (2001), p. 477.

Further reading

• C. F. Matthaei, Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine (Riga, 1782-1788).
• Kurt Treu, Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbiblisi und Erevan, Texte und Untersuchungen 91 (Berlin, 1966), pp. 254-258.

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