Minuscule 429 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 398 (in the Soden numbering), is a

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of the

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, on cotton paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century (Apocalypse – 15th century).

Description

The codex contains the text of the

except

Gospel Gospel originally meant the Christianity, Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the second century Anno domino, AD the term (, from which the English word originated as a calque) came to be used also for the books in which the message w ...

s on 204 paper leaves (). It is written in one column per page, in 29 lines per page. The leaves are arranged in

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. It contains Prolegomena and many marginal readings. The order of books:

Acts of the Apostles The Acts of the Apostles (, ''Práxeis Apostólōn''; ) is the fifth book of the New Testament; it tells of the founding of the Christian Church and the spread of The gospel, its message to the Roman Empire. Acts and the Gospel of Luke make u ...

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, and

Book of Revelation The Book of Revelation, also known as the Book of the Apocalypse or the Apocalypse of John, is the final book of the New Testament, and therefore the final book of the Bible#Christian Bible, Christian Bible. Written in Greek language, Greek, ...

. It contains the

Comma Johanneum The Johannine Comma () is an interpolated phrase (comma) in verses of the First Epistle of John. The text (with the comma in italics and enclosed by brackets) in the King James Version of the Bible reads: In the Greek Textus Receptus (TR), th ...

added by a later hand.

Text

The Greek text of the Acts of the Apostles and the Catholic epistles Aland placed in Category III. It exhibits a remarkable text. The text of the Pauline epistles and Apocalypse is a representative of the

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. Aland placed it in Category V. In the Pauline epistles, the text is close to the codices

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, 1891, and 2815. In Acts 12:25 it reads εξ Ιερουσαλημ εις Αντιοχειαν (''from Jerusalem to Antioch'') along with

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1739 Events January–March * January 1 – Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, in the South Atlantic Ocean. * January 3 – A 7.6 earthquake shakes the Ningxia Hui Autonomou ...

, e, p, syr^p, cop^sa geo; majority reads εις Ιερουσαλημ (''to Jerusalem''); In 2 Timothy 2:14 it reads Χριστου (''of Christ'') for θεοῦ (''of God'') along with

, 1758.

History

Acts and epistles were written by George, a monk in the 14th century (Scrivener 13th century). The Apocalypse was added later in the 14th or 15th century. The manuscript was examined by

Franz Anton Knittel Franz Anton Knittel (April 3, 1721 – December 10, 1792) was a German, Lutheran orthodox theologian, priest, and palaeographer. He examined palimpsests' text of the ''Codex Guelferbytanus 64 Weissenburgensis'' and deciphered text of Codex C ...

in 1773,

''Beyträge zur Kritik über Johannes Offenbarung''
Schröder, Braunschweig und Hildensheim 1773

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(designated by X), and Franz Delitsch.

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saw it in 1891. Formerly it was labelled by 69^a, 74^p, and 30^r. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 429 to it. The manuscript is currently housed at the

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(Codd. Aug. Quarto 16.7.4) in

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at the ''Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0429 Greek New Testament minuscules 14th-century biblical manuscripts 15th-century biblical manuscripts Herzog August Library

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