Minuscule 463 is a Greek

Greek language

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 minuscule manuscript

Manuscript

A manuscript or handwrite is written information that has been manually created by someone or some people, such as a hand-written letter, as opposed to being printed or reproduced some other way...

 of the New Testament

New Testament

The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....

, on parchment. Palaeographically

Palaeography

Palaeography, also spelt paleography is the study of ancient writing. Included in the discipline is the practice of deciphering, reading, and dating historical manuscripts, and the cultural context of writing, including the methods with which writing and books were produced, and the history of...

 it has been assigned to the 12th century.
Formerly it was labeled by 103^a and 118^p.

Description

The codex contains scholia to the Acts and Epistles, with the entire text for Acts of the Apostles

Acts of the Apostles

The Acts of the Apostles , usually referred to simply as Acts, is the fifth book of the New Testament; Acts outlines the history of the Apostolic Age...

 1:1-9:12 on 235 parchment leaves , with some lacunae

Lacuna (manuscripts)

A lacunaPlural lacunae. From Latin lacūna , diminutive form of lacus . is a gap in a manuscript, inscription, text, painting, or a musical work...

. The text is written in two columns per page, 39 lines per page.

It contains prolegomena, Synaxarion, tables of the (tables of contents) at the beginning, and scholia to the Acts, Catholic and the Pauline epistles.

The order of books: Acts, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles.

Kurt Aland

Kurt Aland

Kurt Aland was a German Theologian and Professor of New Testament Research and Church History. He founded the Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung in Münster and served as its first director for many years...

 the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category

Categories of New Testament manuscripts

New Testament manuscripts in Greek are categorized into five groups, according to a scheme introduced in 1981 by Kurt and Barbara Aland in Der Text des Neuen Testaments. The categories are based on how each manuscript relates to the various text-types. Generally speaking, earlier Alexandrian...

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In 1 John 5:6 it has textual variant δι' ὕδατος καὶ πνεύματος (through water and spirit) together with the manuscripts 43

Minuscule 43

Minuscule 43 , α 270 and ε 107 , is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves . Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. Gregory suggested the 12th century. It has full marginalia.- Description :It was split in two volumes...

, 241

Minuscule 241

Minuscule 241 , δ 507 , is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. Formerly it was labelled by 241e, 104a, 120p, and 47r....

, 945, 1241, 1831, 1877*, 1891.For the other textual variants of this verse see: Textual variants in the First Epistle of John.

History

The manuscript came from the Iviron monastery

Iviron monastery

Holy Monastery of Iviron is an Eastern Orthodox monastery at the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece...

 at Mount Athos

Mount Athos

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The manuscript was examined by Matthaei

Christian Frederick Matthaei

Christian Frederick Matthaei , a Thuringian, palaeographer, classical philolog, professor first at Wittenberg and then at Moscow.- Life :...

 and Treu

Kurt Treu

Kurt Treu , German classical philologist, was a son of a German parson on the island Saaremaa, the largest island of Estonia. In 1940, because of World War II, the Treu family was forced to leave their homeland. Kurt Treu studied in a Gymnasium in Hohensalza. AS levels were studied by him after the...

. It is currently housed at the State Historical Museum

State Historical Museum

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 (V. 95, S. 346) in Moscow

Moscow

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

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
  Biblical manuscript
  A biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. The word Bible comes from the Greek biblia ; manuscript comes from Latin manu and scriptum...
  
  
• Textual criticism
  Textual criticism
  Textual criticism is a branch of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in the texts of manuscripts...
  
  

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.