Minuscule 463

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Minuscule 463
Text	Acts of the Apostles †
Date	12th century
Script	Greek
Now at	State Historical Museum
Size	30.2 cm by 22 cm
Category	none

Minuscule 463 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.^[1] Formerly it was labeled by 103^a and 118^p.^[2]

Description

The codex contains scholia to the Acts and Epistles, with the entire text for Acts of the Apostles 1:1-9:12 on 235 parchment leaves (30.2 cm by 22 cm), with some lacunae. The text is written in two columns per page, 39 lines per page.^[1]

It contains prolegomena, Synaxarion, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) at the beginning, and scholia to the Acts, Catholic and the Pauline epistles.^[2][3]

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

Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.^[4]

In 1 John 5:6 it has textual variant δι' ὕδατος καὶ πνεύματος (through water and spirit) together with the manuscripts 43, 241, 945, 1241, 1831, 1877*, 1891.^{[5][n 1]}

History

The manuscript came from the Iviron monastery at Mount Athos.^[2]

The manuscript was examined by Matthaei and Treu. It is currently housed at the State Historical Museum (V. 95, S. 346) in Moscow.^[1]

Formerly it was labeled by 103^a and 118^p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 463 to it.^[6]

See also

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

Notes

1. ^ For the other textual variants of this verse see: Textual variants in the First Epistle of John.

References

1. ^ ^{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. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 292. 
3. ^ ^{a b} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 273. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n285/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. ^ UBS3, p. 823.
6. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 65. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n75/mode/2up. 

Further reading

• C. F. Matthaei, Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine (Riga, 1782-1788), p. 269f, XVI, XXVII.
• 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. 285-288.

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