Minuscule 921 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), α 553 (
von Soden),
is a 14th-century
Greek minuscule
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manuscript of the
New Testament on parchment. The manuscript has survived in complete condition.
Description
The
codex
The codex (plural codices ) was the historical ancestor of the modern book. Instead of being composed of sheets of paper, it used sheets of vellum, papyrus, or other materials. The term ''codex'' is often used for ancient manuscript books, with ...
contains the text of the
Book of Acts
The Acts of the Apostles ( grc-koi, Πράξεις Ἀποστόλων, ''Práxeis Apostólōn''; la, Actūs Apostolōrum) is the fifth book of the New Testament; it tells of the founding of the Christian Church and the spread of its message ...
and
Pauline epistles
The Pauline epistles, also known as Epistles of Paul or Letters of Paul, are the thirteen books of the New Testament attributed to Paul the Apostle, although the authorship of some is in dispute. Among these epistles are some of the earliest extan ...
, on 334 paper leaves (size ).
The text is written in one column per page, and 20 lines per page.
Text
Kurt Aland
Kurt Aland (28 March 1915 – 13 April 1994) was a German theologian and biblical scholar who specialized in New Testament textual criticism. He founded the '' Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung'' (Institute for New Testament Textua ...
placed the Greek text of the codex in
Category V.
It means it is a representative of the
Byzantine text-type.
History
According to
C. R. Gregory
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* Century, sometimes abbreviated as ''c.'' or ''C.'', a period of 100 years
* Cent (currency), abbreviated ''c.'' or ''¢'', a monetary unit that equals of the basic unit of many currencies
* Caius or Gaius, abbreviated as ...
the manuscript was written in the 15th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the
INTF
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to the 14th century.
It was described by Montana, who sent a description to Kelly.
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by
Scrivener (209
a, 475
r)
and Gregory (237
a, 475
r). In 1908 Gregory gave the number 921 to it.
Formerly it was classified as
lectionary
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under the
siglum l 595.
It is currently housed in the
Biblioteca de El Escorial (C. IV. 9) in
Escurial
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, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin) ...
.
See also
*
List of New Testament minuscules
*
Biblical manuscript
A biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. Biblical manuscripts vary in size from tiny scrolls containing individual verses of the Jewish scriptures (see ''Tefillin'') to huge polyglot codices (multi-ling ...
*
Textual criticism
References
Further reading
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External links
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Greek New Testament minuscules
14th-century biblical manuscripts