Minuscule 469 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 306 (in the Soden numbering), is a

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of the

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, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. It was adapted for liturgical use. Formerly it was labeled by 119^a, 139^p, and 56^r.

Description

The codex contains the text of the whole

except

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s on 229 parchment leaves (size ), with only one

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(2 Corinthians 1:8-2:4). The text is written in one column per page, 24-25 lines per page. It contains prolegomena, lectionary markings at the margin for liturgical use, (''lessons''), liturgical book

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, subscriptions at the end of each book, with numbers of . The Catholic epistles follow the Pauline epistles.

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 dated by

F. H. A. Scrivener Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener (September 29, 1813, Bermondsey, Surrey – October 30, 1891, Hendon, Middlesex) was a New Testament textual critic and a member of the English New Testament Revision Committee which produced the Revised Version ...

to the 10th century, but the Apocalypse to the 13th century, C. R. Gregory dated it to the 13th or 14th century. It was dated by the INTF to the 13th century. The manuscript was slightly examined by Scholz, Reiche and C. R. Gregory (1885). It was the last manuscript added it to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz. It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.

Herman C. Hoskier Herman Charles Hoskier (1864–1938), was a biblical scholar, British textual critic, and son of a merchant banker, Herman Hoskier (1832–1904). Hoskier, as textual critic, generally but not entirely supported the Byzantine text-type against th ...

collated its text only for the Book of Revelation. It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz. Formerly it was labeled by 119^a, 139^p, and 56^r. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 469 to it. It is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 102A) in

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0469 Greek New Testament minuscules 13th-century biblical manuscripts Bibliothèque nationale de France collections

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