Minuscule 423

Minuscule 423

New Testament manuscript
Text	Gospel of Matthew, Gospel of John
Date	1556
Script	Greek
Now at	Bavarian State Library
Size	33.9 cm by 23.7 cm
Category	none
Note	no marginalia

Minuscule 423 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Ν^μ60 Ν^ι60 (in the Soden numbering),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1556.[2]

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Matthew and Gospel of John in two volumes on 465 + 576 paper leaves (33.9 cm by 23.7 cm). It is written in one column per page, in 30 lines per page.[2] The biblical text is surrounded by a catena of Nicetas.[3]

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

History

The name of the scribe was Emmanuel.[3]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794–1852).[5] It was examined by Dean Burgon. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1887.[3]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Bavarian State Library (Gr. 36.37) in Munich.[2]

See also

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

References

1. Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 63.
2. Aland, Kurt; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 72. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
3. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 188.
4. Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
5. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1861). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament (1 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 168.

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 188.

External links

• Minuscule 423 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism