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MInuscule 461
Name	Uspenski Gospels
Text	New Testament
Date	835
Script	Greek
Found	Uspensky 1844
Now at	National Library of Russia
Size	16.7 x 10.7 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V

Uspenski Gospels, Minuscule 461 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) ε92 (Soden), 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.^[1]

Contents 1 Description 2 History 3 See also 4 Sources 5 References 6 External links

[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. It contains κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, and lectionary markings.

The codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[1] It belongs to the textual family K¹.

Cited in Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece, because of its date.

[edit] History

Probably the codex was written in Constantinople by monk named Nicholas. 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 held in Saint Petersburg (National Library of Russia, Gr. 219. 213. 101).^[1]

[edit] See also

• List of New Testament minuscules

[edit] Sources

• G. Cereteli, Wo ist das Tetraevangelium von Porphyrius Uspenskij aus dem Jahr 835 erstanden?, Byz Z IX (1900), pp. 649-653.
• A. Diller, A Companion to the Uspenski Gospels, Byz Z XLIX (1956), pp. 332-335.
• Bruce M. Metzger, Manuscripts of the Greek Bible: An Introduction To Greek Palaeography, 1981, Oxford University Press, p. 102, No. 26.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Tyndale Bulletin 46(1995)251-285

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