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List of New Testament papyri; List of New Testament uncials; List of New Testament minuscules. List of New Testament minuscules (1–1000) List of New Testament minuscules (1001–2000) List of New Testament minuscules (2001–) List of New Testament lectionaries
A New Testament papyrus is a copy of a portion of the New Testament made on papyrus. To date, over 140 such papyri are known. In general, they are considered the earliest witnesses to the original text of the New Testament. [1] This elite status among New Testament manuscripts only began in the 20th century.
The oldest text of the entire Christian Bible, including the New Testament, is the Codex Sinaiticus dating from the 4th century CE, with its Old Testament a copy of a Greek translation known as the Septuagint. The oldest extant manuscripts of the vocalized Masoretic Text date to the 9th century CE. [1]
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-lingual books) containing both the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and the New Testament, as well as extracanonical works.
The New Testament has been preserved in more than 5,800 Greek manuscripts, 10,000 Latin manuscripts and 9,300 manuscripts in various other ancient languages including Syriac, Slavic, Ethiopic and Armenian. Even if the original Greek versions were lost, the entire New Testament could still be assembled from the translations.
Minuscule 472 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), α 1386 (in the Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), [1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on parchment. Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it has been assigned to the 13th century. [2]
Some of the manuscripts proposed as belonging to Family 13 appear to have links to Calabria in Southern Italy (mss 13, 124, 174, 230), and one to Albania (ms. 1689); manuscripts 124 and 174 are recorded as having been written in Calabria, and most of the family members recording menologion (verses from the New Testament arranged by month ...
The manuscripts usually contain independent readings, and have a distinctive character. ƒ 1 and ƒ 13 are examples of manuscript families that fall within this category. Manuscripts of this category usually present mixed or eclectic text-type. [1] [2]: 383 Category IV: "Manuscripts of the D text."