Minuscule 453 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A^πρ40 (in the Soden numbering), is a

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of the

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, on a parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century. Formerly it was labelled by 81^a.

Description

The codex contains the text of the

Acts of the Apostles 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 messag ...

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on 295 parchment leaves (). The text is written in two columns per page, in 32 lines per page. It contains Prolegomena to the Acts, table of the (''tables of contents'') to the Acts, numbers of the (''chapters'') to the Acts are given at the margin, the (''titles'') in Acts and epistles, and a commentary.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a mixture of text-types. Aland placed it in Category III. In Acts 8:37 it has additional verse together with the manuscripts Codex Laudanius, 323,

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, 1739, 1891, 2818 (formerly 36^a), and several others.Nestle-Aland, ''Novum Testamentum Graece'', 26th edition, p. 345; Bruce M. Metzger, ''A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament'' (

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: Stuttgart 2001), p. 316. In Acts 8:39 instead of πνεῦμα κυρίου (''spirit of the Lord'') it has unusual textual variant (''the Holy Spirit fell on the eunuch, and an angel of the Lord caught up Philip'') supported by several minuscule manuscripts:

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, 94, 103,

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, 323, 385, 467, 945, 1739, 1765, 1891, 2298, 36^a, it^p, vg, syr^h. In Acts 20:28 it reads του κυριου —

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, A, C*, D, E, Ψ, 33, 36, 945, 1739, 1891, instead of Alexandrian του Θεου or Byzantine του κυριου και του Θεου.

History

The manuscript was dated by Scrivener to the 11th century. Gregory dated it to the 14th century. Currently it is dated by the

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to the 14th century. The manuscript was examined by

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in some passages of the Acts (1:24; 20:26.27.28.29.32) and by Scholz in some passages of the 1 John (4:16; 5:7.20). C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886. The manuscript was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852). Formerly it was labelled by 81^a. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 453 to it. It is currently housed at the

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(Barb. gr. 582) in

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Minuscule 453
at the ''Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0453 Greek New Testament minuscules 14th-century biblical manuscripts Manuscripts of the Vatican Library

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