Minuscule 463 Explained

Minuscule 463 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.^[1] Formerly it was labeled by 103^a and 118^p.^[2]

Description

The codex contains scholia to the Acts and Epistles, with the entire text for Acts of the Apostles 1:1-9:12 on 235 parchment leaves, with some lacunae. The text is written in two columns per page, 39 lines per page.^[1]

It contains prolegomena, Synaxarion, tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) at the beginning, and scholia to the Acts, Catholic and the Pauline epistles.^{[2] [3]}

The order of books: Acts, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles.^[3]

Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.^[4]

In 1 John 5:6 it has textual variant δι' ὕδατος καὶ πνεύματος (through water and spirit) together with the manuscripts 43, 241, 945, 1241, 1831, 1877*, 1891.^{[5] [6]}

History

The manuscript came from the Iviron monastery at Mount Athos.^[2]

The manuscript was examined by Matthaei and Treu. It is currently housed at the State Historical Museum (V. 95, S. 346) in Moscow.^[1]

Formerly it was labeled by 103^a and 118^p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 463 to it.^[7]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

Further reading

• C. F. Matthaei, Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine (Riga, 1782-1788), p. 269f, XVI, XXVII.
• Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbiblisi und Erevan, Texte und Untersuchungen 91 (Berlin, 1966), pp. 285–288.

External links

• Web site: Liste Handschriften . Institute for New Testament Textual Research . 22 March 2013 . Münster.

Notes and References

1. Book: Aland , K. . Kurt Aland . M. Welte . B. Köster . K. Junack . Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments . . 1994 . Berlin, New York . 75 . 3-11-011986-2 .
2. Book: Scrivener , Frederick Henry Ambrose . Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener . Edward Miller . . . 1894 . London . 1 . 292 .
3. Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . J.C. Hinrichs . 1900 . Leipzig . 1 . 273 .
4. Book: Aland , Kurt . 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.
5. UBS3, p. 823.
6. For the other textual variants of this verse see: Textual variants in the First Epistle of John.
7. Book: Gregory, Caspar René. Caspar René Gregory . Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament . 1908 . J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung . Leipzig. 65.