{{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''421''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = Vind. Caes. Ness. 303 | sign = | text = Acts, CE, Paul | script = Greek | date = ca. 1300 | found = | now at = Austrian National Library | cite = | size = {{×|18.8|14|cm}} | type = | cat = none | hand = carefully written | note = }}
'''Minuscule 421''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 259 (in Soden's numbering),<ref name = Gregory1908>{{cite book|last=Gregory|first=Caspar René|author-link=Caspar René Gregory|title=Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament|url=https://archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n73/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=63}}</ref> is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated to year ca. 1300.<ref name = Aland>{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland |author2=M. Welte |author3=B. Köster |author4=K. Junack | title = Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments | publisher = Walter de Gruyter | year = 1994 | location = Berlin, New York | page = 72 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}</ref> Formerly it was designated by 64<sup>a</sup> and 69<sup>p</sup>. Marginal equipment is not complete.
== Description ==
The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 279 parchment leaves ({{×|18.8|14|cm}}). The text is written in one column per page, in 22 lines per page.<ref name = Aland/>
It contains Prolegomena, tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''tables of contents'') before each book, lectionary equipment at the margin, subscriptions at the end of each book, Synaxarion, and Menologion.<ref name = Gregory>{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 269 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n281/mode/2up }}</ref><ref name = Scrivener/>
Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of this codex in any Category.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland | last2 = Aland | first2 = Barbara | author-link2 = Barbara Aland | translator-first = Erroll F.|translator-last=Rhodes | title = The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1995 | location = Grand Rapids | page = 139 | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref>
== History ==
Gregory dated the manuscript to the 12th century.<ref name = Gregory/>
The manuscript was carefully written by John Tarchaniota. Auger Ghislain de Busbecq brought it, together with codex 425, from Constantinople to Vienna. The manuscript was examined by Treschow, Alter, and Birch.<ref name = Scrivener>{{Cite book | last = Scrivener | first = Frederick Henry Ambrose | author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener | title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 2005|orig-date=1894 | location = London | volume = 1 | page = 290 }}</ref> Alter used it in his edition of NT, vol 2, pp. 789–853. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1887.<ref name = Gregory/> Formerly it was designated by 64<sup>a</sup> and 69<sup>p</sup>. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 421 to it.<ref name = Gregory1908/>
The manuscript is currently housed at the Austrian National Library (Theol. gr. 303) in Vienna.<ref name = Aland/>
== See also == {{Portal|Bible}}
* List of New Testament minuscules * Biblical manuscript * Textual criticism
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
== Further reading ==
* Francis Karl Alter, ''Novum Testamentum Graecum, ad Codicem Vindobonensem Graece expressum: Varietam Lectionis addidit Franciscus Carolus Alter'', 2 vols. 8vo, Vienna, 1787, vol. 2, pp. 789–853.
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