New Testament manuscript |
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Name | Guelferbytanus XVI. 7 |
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Text | New Testament (except Gospels) |
Date | 14th/15th century |
Script | Greek |
Now at | Herzog August Bibliothek |
Size | 22.5 cm by 16 cm |
Type | mixed, Byzantine |
Category | III, V |
Minuscule 429 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 398 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on cotton paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century (Apocalypse – 15th century).
The codex contains the text of the New Testament except Gospels on 204 paper leaves (22.5 cm by 16 cm). It is written in one column per page, in 29 lines per page. The leaves are arranged in quarto. It contains Prolegomena and many marginal readings.
The order of books: Acts of the Apostles, Pauline epistles, Catholic epistles, and Book of Revelation.
It contains the Comma Johanneum added by a later hand.
The Greek text of the Acts of the Apostles and the Catholic epistles Aland placed in Category III. It exhibits a remarkable text. The text of the Pauline epistles and Apocalypse is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V. In the Pauline epistles, the text is close to the codices 206, 522, 1891, and 2815.
In Acts 12:25 it reads εξ Ιερουσαλημ εις Αντιοχειαν (from Jerusalem to Antioch) along with 945, 1739, e, p, syrp, copsa geo; majority reads εις Ιερουσαλημ (to Jerusalem);