| New Testament manuscript | |
| Text | Acts, Catholic Epistles, Pauline Epistles, and Revelation |
|---|---|
| Date | 11th century |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | Austrian National Library |
| Size | 18.2 cm by 14 cm |
| Type | mixed (epist.; Rev), Byzantine (Acts) |
| Category | III, V |
Minuscule 424 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), Ο12 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament containing the book of Acts, the Pauline Epistles, the Catholic Epistles, and Revelation, written on parchment. Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it has been assigned to the 11th century.[2] It was formerly designated by the number 66a and 67p.
Description
[edit]The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book), containing the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles, and Revelation on 353 parchment leaves (18.2 cm by 14 cm). The text is written in one column per page, with 22 lines per page.[2]
It contains Prolegomena (to the Acts and Pauline epistles), the Synaxarion (list of Saint's days), Menologion (list of lecton's in the church's weekly reading), subscriptions at the end of each book, and pictures. The Catholic epistles have subscriptions with the numbers of lines (known as στιχοι / stichoi).[3] Three different hands have made corrections.[4]
According to the subscription at the end of the Epistle to the Romans, the letter was: επιστολη προς Ρωμαιους εγραφη δια Φοιβης διακονου της εν Κεγχρειαις εκκλησιας. (Epistle to the Romans, written by Phoebe, deaconess of the church in Cenchrea)[5]
Text
[edit]The Greek text of Acts in the codex is considered a representative of the Byzantine text-type, but in the Epistles it has been subjected to a thorough revision to bring it into conformity with the text of the exemplar of Minuscule 1739. Biblical scholar Kurt Aland placed it in Category V of his New Testament classification system for the book of Acts. The text of the Epistles has a higher value; Aland therefore placed it in Category III.[6] It often agrees with the codex Minuscule 1739.
In Acts 24:6b-8a it has unique reading: εκρατησαμεν και κατα τον ημετερον νομον ηβουληθημεν κριναι κατα τον ημετερον νομον ελθων δε ο χιλιαρχος Λυσιας βια πολλη εκ των χειρων ημων αφιλετο και προς δε απεστειλε κελευσας τους κατηγορους αυτου ερχεσθαι προς σε.[7]
In a marginal note at 1 John 5:6, corrector c has added the reading: δι' ὕδατος καὶ αἵματος καὶ πνεύματος (through water and blood and spirit) together with the manuscripts: Codex Sinaiticus (א), Codex Alexandrinus (A), Minuscule 104, 614, 1739c, 2412, 2495, ℓ 598m, syrh, Sahidic, Boharic, Origen.[8][n 1] Scholar Bart D. Ehrman considers this textual variant as an Orthodox corrupted reading.[9]
A transcription of the text of Acts in the manuscript is available from the INTF Virtual Manuscript Room.
History
[edit]The manuscript once belonged to Arsenius, Archbishop of Momembasia, then to Sebastian Tengnagel and John Sambue. It was examined by Treschow, Francis Karl Alter, Andreas Birch, and Johann J. Griesbach.[4] Alter used it in his edition of the Greek New Testament (vol. 2, 415-558). Biblical scholar Caspar René Gregory saw it in 1887.[3] It was previously designated by 66a and 67. In 1908, Gregory assigned it the number 424.[1]
The manuscript is currently housed at the Austrian National Library (Theol. gr. 302) in Vienna.[2]
See also
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Notes
[edit]- ^ For the other variants of this verse see: Textual variants in the First Epistle of John.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs. p. 63.
- ^ 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. 72. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
- ^ a b Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs. p. 268.
- ^ a b Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1861). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament (1 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 192.
- ^ NA26, p. 440
- ^ Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ UBS3, p. 513.
- ^ UBS3, p. 823.
- ^ Ehrman, Bart D (1993). The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 60. ISBN 978-0199739783.
Further reading
[edit]- 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. Neville Birdsall, A Byzantine Calendar from the Menology of two Biblical Mss, Analecta Bollandiana 84 (Brussels, 1966), pp. 29–57.
External links
[edit]- Colour Digital images of the manuscript from the Austrian National Library
- Minuscule 424 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism