Minuscule 464
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| form = Minuscule | number = 464 + 252 | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Acts, Cath., Pauline epistles | script = Greek | date = 11th century | found = | now at = State Historical Museum | cite = | size = | type = | cat = none | hand = carefully written | note =
Minuscule 464 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 165 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th 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 106a and 122p.{{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 Minuscule 464 has been identified as the same manuscript as Minuscule 252.
Description
The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 229 parchment leaves (). It contains also liturgical books with hagiographies: Synaxarion, Menologion.{{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
It is carefully written in one column per page, 33 lines per page.
It contains prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each sacred book, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical reading), and the Psalms annexed.
The order of books is usual for the Greek manuscripts: Acts, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles.
Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place 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 | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}
History
Formerly it belonged to the same manuscript as codex 252 (Gospels).
The manuscript came from the Vatopedi monastery at Mount Athos to Moscow.
Formerly it was labelled by 106a and 122p. In 1908 C. R. Gregory gave the number 464 to it.
The manuscript was examined by Matthaei and Treu. It is currently housed at the State Historical Museum (S. 328) in Moscow.
References
References
- Gregory, Caspar René. (1908). "Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament". J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung.
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