Minuscule 2423 Explained

Minuscule 2423 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on 227 parchment leaves (20.2 cm by 15 cm); it is dated paleographically to the 13th century.[1]

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles with some lacunae. Epistle to the Hebrews is placed between 2 Thessalonians and 1 Timothy.[2]

The text is written in one column per page, in 27 lines per page.[1]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[3]

History

The codex now is located in the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of the Duke University (Gk MS 3) at Durham.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 187.
  2. http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/codex/mss01_25.html Minuscule 2423 at the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts
  3. Book: Aland , Kurt . Kurt Aland

    . Kurt Aland . Aland . Barbara . Barbara Aland . Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) . The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism . . 1995 . Grand Rapids . 139 . 978-0-8028-4098-1.