Minuscule 442 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), O¹⁸ (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 12 or 13th century. Formerly it was assigned by 68^a and 73^p. It shared all these designations with Minuscule 441, with which it now comprises a single codex.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Catholic epistles and 1 Corinthians 13:6 to Hebrews 13:25 of the Pauline epistles on 129 parchment leaves (). It is written in one column of 38-39 lines per page. It contains the

Euthalian Apparatus The Euthalian Apparatus is a collection of additional editorial material, such as divisions of text, lists, and summaries, to the New Testament's Book of Acts, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles. This additional material appears at the beginni ...

, subscriptions at the end of each book, , and four prolegomena to the

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. The biblical text is surrounded by a catena of Oecumenius. Leaves 3-182 form another manuscript which is now bound in the same codex. These leaves have a duplicate portion (1 Cor 13:6-15:38) and some contradictory readings. Now they are classified as Minuscule 441.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is representative of the Alexandrian text-type with some alien readings. Aland placed it in Category II. It is one of the witnesses of the textual variant ὃς ἐφανερώθη (''he was manifested'') in Timothy 3:16. This reading is supported by such Alexandrian manuscripts as

Codex Sinaiticus The Codex Sinaiticus ( Shelfmark: London, British Library, Add MS 43725), designated by siglum [Aleph] or 01 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 2 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscript ...

Codex Alexandrinus The Codex Alexandrinus (London, British Library, Royal MS 1. D. V-VIII), designated by the siglum A or 02 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 4 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is a manu ...

, Codex Ephraemi,

Minuscule 33 Minuscule 33 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 48 ( Soden), before the French Revolution was called ''Codex Colbertinus 2844''. It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment, dated palaeographically to the 9th century. ...

, Minuscule 225, and Minuscule 2127, but it is also confirmed by the manuscripts of the

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Codex Augiensis Codex Augiensis, designated by Fp or 010 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1029 ( von Soden) is a 9th-century diglot uncial manuscript of the Pauline Epistles in double parallel columns of Greek and Latin on the same page. Description The ...

and

Codex Boernerianus Codex Boernerianus, designated by G, G or 012 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), α 1028 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is a small New Testament codex, measuring 25 x 18 cm, written in ...

. In 1 John 5:6 it has the textual variant δι' ὕδατος καὶ πνεύματος καὶ αἵματος (''through water and spirit and blood'') together with these manuscripts and versions: Codex Porphyrianus, 81, 88,

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, 915, 2492, arm, eth.For another variants of this verse see: Textual variants in the First Epistle of John.

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identified this reading as Orthodox corruption.

History

The codex was bought at Venice (along with Minuscule 441 and Minuscule 899) by Johan Gabriel Sparwenfeld in 1678. Peter Fabian Aurivill published facsimile of two fragments of the codex (with text of the Acts 10:34-38 and 1 Timothy 3:16). It was examined by Adolf Michaelis, and Johannes Belsheim. Caspar René Gregory saw it in 1891. The manuscript was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852). Formerly it was labelled by 68^a and 73^p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 442 to it. The codex is cited in critical editions of the

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(NA26).NA26, p. 705. It is currently housed at the

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(Gr. 1, p. 183-440) in

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