Minuscule 425 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 457 (in the Soden numbering), is a

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of the

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, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1330. Formerly it was designated by 67^a.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 159 parchment leaves (). The

Epistle to the Hebrews The Epistle to the Hebrews ( grc, Πρὸς Ἑβραίους, Pros Hebraious, to the Hebrews) is one of the books of the New Testament. The text does not mention the name of its author, but was traditionally attributed to Paul the Apostle. Most ...

is placed after Epistle to Philemon. The text is written in one column per page, in 29-31 lines per page. It contains Prolegomena, tables of the (''tables of contents'') before each sacred book, subscriptions at the end of each book, Synaxarion,

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, and numbers of at the end of each book. It is elegantly but inaccurately written.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the

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. Aland placed it in Category V.

History

The manuscript was written by one Leo at Constantinople. It was brought from Constantinople to Vienna by Augier Busbecq together with the codex

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and many other manuscripts. It was examined by

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, Alter, and

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. Alter used it in his edition of the Greek New Testament (vol. 2, pp. 689–740). C. R. Gregory saw it in 1881. The manuscript was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852). The manuscript is currently housed at the

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(Theol. gr. 221) in

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