Minuscule 459

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| form = Minuscule | number = 459 | image = Minuscule 459 f 15 r.jpeg | isize = | caption= Folio 15 recto | name = | sign = | text = New Testament (except Gospels) | script = Greek | date = 1092 | found = | now at = Laurentian Library | cite = | size = | type = mixed, Byzantine | cat = III, V | hand = beautifully written | note =

Minuscule 459 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 104 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1092.{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland |author2=M. Welte |author3=B. Köster |author4=K. Junack | title = Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments | publisher = Walter de Gruyter | year = 1994 | location = Berlin, New York | page = 74 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }} Formerly it was labeled by 89a and 99p.{{Cite book | last = Scrivener | first = Frederick Henry Ambrose | author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |author2=Edward Miller | title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1894 | location = London | edition = 4 | volume = 1 | page = 291

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles, and Book of Revelation on 276 parchment leaves (). The text is written in one column per page, in 27 lines per page.

The biblical text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages.

It contains Prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each book, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), subscriptions at the end of each book, numbers of στιχοι, and treatise of Pseudo-Dorotheus on the Seventy disciples and twelve apostles (as codices 82, 93, 177, 613, 617).{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = J.C. Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 272 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n285/mode/2up

The order of books: Acts, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a mixed in the Pauline epistles and the Byzantine text-type elsewhere. Aland placed it in Category III in the Pauline epistles and in Category V elsewhere.{{Cite book | last1 = Aland | first1 = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland | last2 = Aland | first2 = Barbara | author-link2 = Barbara Aland | others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) | title = The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1995 | location = Grand Rapids | page = 133 | url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}

History

The manuscript was examined and slightly collated by Birch and Scholz. Antonio Maria Biscioni published its facsimile in 1752. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.

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

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

References

References

  1. Gregory, Caspar René. (1908). "Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament". J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung.
  2. The ending of the [[Epistle to the Romans]] has the order of verses: 16:23; 16:25-27; 16:24 (as in codices [[Codex Porphyrianus. 025]] [[Minuscule 33. 33]] [[Minuscule 104. 104]] [[Minuscule 256. 256]] [[Minuscule 263. 263]] [[Minuscule 365. 365]] [[Minuscule 436. 436]] 1319 1573 1852 [[Peshitta]] arm).UBS3, p. 576.

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