Minuscule 434

Minuscule 434

New Testament manuscript
Name	Vindobonensis
Text	Gospel of Luke 1:5-6:21
Date	13th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Austrian National Library
Size	30 cm by 19.8 cm
Category	none

Minuscule 434 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Ν^λ48 (in the Soden numbering),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.^[2]

Description

The codex contains only the text of the Gospel of Luke 1:5-6:21 on 424 parchment leaves (30 cm by 19.8 cm) with a catena. It is written in one column per page, in 28-30 lines per page.^[2][3]

Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.^[4] It was not examined by the Claremont Profile Method.^[5]

History

F. H. A. Scrivener and C. R. Gregory dated the manuscript to the 14th century.^[3] Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 13th century.^[2]

The manuscript was brought from Constantinople by Busbecq (together with the codex 218).^[6] It was examined by Birch and Scholz.^[3] The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794–1852).^[7] C. R. Gregory saw it in 1887.^[3]

It is currently housed at the Austrian National Library (Theol. gr. 71) in Vienna.^[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, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 73. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
3. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 189.
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. Wisse, Frederik (1982). The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 60. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
6. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 238.
7. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1861). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 225.

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 189.