{{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''459''' | image = Minuscule 459 f 15 r.jpeg | isize = | caption= Folio 15 recto | name = | sign = | text = New Testament (except Gospels) | script = Greek | date = 1092 | found = | now at = Laurentian Library | cite = | size = {{×|26|19.5|cm}} | type = mixed, Byzantine | cat = III, V | hand = beautifully written | note = }}

'''Minuscule 459''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 104 (in the Soden 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/n75/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=64}}</ref> is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1092.<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 = 74 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}</ref> Formerly it was labeled by 89<sup>a</sup> and 99<sup>p</sup>.<ref name = Scrivener>{{Cite book | last = Scrivener | first = Frederick Henry Ambrose | author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |author2=Edward Miller | title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1894 | location = London | edition = 4 | volume = 1 | page = 291 }}</ref>

== Description ==

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles, and Book of Revelation on 276 parchment leaves ({{×|26|19.5|cm}}). The text is written in one column per page, in 27 lines per page.<ref name = Aland/>

The biblical text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (''titles'') at the top of the pages.{{r|Gregory}}

It contains Prolegomena, tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''tables of contents'') before each book, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), subscriptions at the end of each book, numbers of {{lang|grc|στιχοι}}, and treatise of Pseudo-Dorotheus on the ''Seventy disciples'' and twelve apostles (as codices 82, 93, 177, 613, 617).<ref name = Gregory>{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = J.C. Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 272 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n285/mode/2up }}</ref>

The order of books: Acts, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles.<ref name = Gregory/> The ending of the Epistle to the Romans has the order of verses: 16:23; 16:25-27; 16:24 (as in codices 025 33 104 256 263 365 436 1319 1573 1852 Peshitta arm).<ref>UBS3, p. 576.</ref>

== Text ==

The Greek text of the codex is a mixed in the Pauline epistles and the Byzantine text-type elsewhere. Aland placed it in Category III in the Pauline epistles and in Category V elsewhere.<ref>{{Cite book | last1 = Aland | first1 = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland | last2 = Aland | first2 = Barbara | author-link2 = Barbara Aland | others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) | 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 = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n155 133] | url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref>

== History ==

The manuscript was examined and slightly collated by Birch and Scholz. Antonio Maria Biscioni published its facsimile in 1752.{{r|Gregory|Scrivener}} C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.{{r|Gregory}}

Formerly it was labeled by 89<sup>a</sup> and 99<sup>p</sup>. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 459 to it.<ref name = Gregory1908/>

It is currently housed at the Laurentian Library (Plutei IV. 32) in Florence.<ref name = Aland/>

== See also ==

{{Portal|Bible}} * List of New Testament minuscules * Biblical manuscript * Textual criticism

== References ==

{{Reflist}}

== Further reading ==

* Antonio Maria Biscioni, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZdeQ5eiGGtAC ''Bibliothecae Mediceo-Laurentianae catalogus''], Florence 1752, vol. 2, p.&nbsp;73-76.

== External links == * {{Cite web |url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=30459 |title=Liste Handschriften |publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research |access-date=18 March 2013 |location=Münster}}

{{Manuscripts of the New Testament described by A. M. Bisconini}}

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