Minuscule 424

Minuscule 424 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Ο¹² (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 11th century.^[1] Fromelry it was designated by 66^a and 67^p.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 353 parchment leaves (18.2 cm by 14 cm). Written in one columns per page, in 22 lines per page.^[1] It contains Prolegomena (to the Acts and Pauline epistles), Synaxarion, Menologion, subscriptions, and pictures. The text of the Catholic epitles has stichoi.^[2] Three different hands made corrections.^[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type except Pauline epistles. Aland placed it in Category V. The text of the Pauline epistles has higher value, Aland placed it in Category III^[4] Often agree with the codex 1739.

In a margin notes for the text 1 John 5:6 corrector c added reading δι' ὕδατος καὶ αἵματος καὶ πνεύματος (through water and blood and spirit) together with the manuscripts: Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Alexandrinus, 104, 614, 1739^c, 2412, 2495, ℓ 598^m, syr^h, cop^sa, cop^bo, Origen.^[5][a] Bart D. Ehrman identified this textual variant as Orthodox corrupt reading.^[6]

History

The manuscript once belonged to Arsenius, Archbishop of Momembasia, then to Sebastian Tengnagel and John Sambue. It was examined by Treschow, Alter, Birch, and Griesbach.^[3] Alter used it in his edition of the Greek New Testament (vol. 2, 415-558).

The manuscript is currently housed at the Austrian National Library (Theol. gr. 302) in Vienna.^[1]

See also

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

Notes

• a. For the another variants of this verse see: Textual variants in the First Epistle of John.

References

• 1. Aland, K.; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 72. ISBN 3110119862.
• 2. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 188.
• 3. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1861). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. London. p. 192.
• 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. 132. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
• 5. UBS3, p. 823.
• 6. Bart D. Ehrman, The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1993, p. 60.

Further reading

• Andreas Christian Hwiid, Libellus criticus de indole codicis ms. Graeci Novi Testamenti bibliothecae Caesareo-Vindobonensis Lambecii XXXIV. Accessit textus Latinus ss Antehieronymianus ex codice Laudiano, Kopenhagen 1785.
• J. N. Birdsall, A Byzantine Calendar from the Menology of two Biblical Mss, Analecta Bollandiana 84 (Brussels, 1966), pp. 29-57.

External links

• Minuscule 424 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism

• Wikipedia Article on Minuscule 424