Minuscule 462
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| form = Minuscule | number = 462 | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Acts, Cath., Pauline epistles | script = Greek | date = 13th century | found = | now at = State Historical Museum | cite = | size = | type = | cat = none | hand = carefully written | note =
Minuscule 462 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 359 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on a paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = K. | 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 = 75 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }} Formerly it was labelled by 101a and 116p.{{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 = 292 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 (). It is carefully written in one column per page, 25 lines per page.
It contains prolegomena, Synaxarion, and scholia to the Acts, and lectionary markings at the margin of the Epistles for liturgical reading. It contains Martyrium Pauli.
The order of books: Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles.{{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 = 273 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n285/mode/2up
Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = 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 = 139 | url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}
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;
History
It is dated by the INTF to the 13th century.
Formerly it was labelled by 101a and 116p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 462 to it.
The manuscript was examined by Matthaei and Treu. It is currently housed at the State Historical Museum (V. 24, S. 346) in Moscow.
References
References
- Gregory, Caspar René. (1908). "Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament". J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung.
- As minuscules: [[Minuscule 384. 384]], [[Minuscule 615. 615]], [[Minuscule 2818. 2818]].
- Bruce M. Metzger, ''A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament'' (2001), p. 477.
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