Uspenski Gospels

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New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionaries
MInuscule 461
Name Uspenski Gospels
Text New Testament
Date 835
Script Greek
Found Uspensky 1844
Now at Saint Petersburg
Size 16.7 x 10.7 cm
Type Byzantine text-type
Category V

Uspenski Gospels, Minuscule 461 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) are a New Testament minuscule manuscript written in Greek, dated at 835 AD. They are the oldest known dated manuscript of the New Testament: it was not customary for scribes to date their work at the time.

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[edit] Description

The codex contains 344 parchment leaves (16.7cm by 10.7cm), written in one column per page, 19 lines per page. Pericope de adultera omitted by the original scribe, has been added in the margin by a later hand.

The codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[1] Cited in Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece, because of its date.

[edit] History

Probably the codex was written in Constantinople. Later it belonged to the monastery of Mar Saba in Palestine. In 1844 bp Porphiryj Uspienski took it and brought it to Russia.[2] The codex is holded in Petersburg (Russian National Library, Gr. 219. 213. 101).

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[edit] Sources

  • Bruce M. Metzger, Manuscripts of the Greek Bible: An Introduction To Greek Palaeography, 1981, Oxford University Press, p. 102, No. 26.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Kurt Aland, Barbara Aland, The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism, transl. Erroll F. Rhodes, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995, p. 129.
  2. ^ Before descovering of this codex, the earliest dated cursive was Minuscule 14 (A.D. 964).

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