Minuscule 404
Minuscule 404, α 467, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. The manuscript has complex contents.
Formerly it was designated by the symbols 63a and 68p.Description
The codex contains a complete text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles, on 157 parchment leaves. It is written in one column per page, in 26 lines per page.
It contains Prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια before each book, Synaxarion, subscriptions at the end of each book, numbers of Stichometry, notes to the Catholic epistles, and scholia.Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.History
The manuscript once belonged to John Sambucky. It was presented to Octavio Ferrari in Milano in 1562. It was examined by Treschow, Alter, Andreas Birch, and Burgon. Alter used it in his edition of the Greek New Testament. Birch collated some of its readings. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1887.
The manuscript was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Scholz.
Formerly it was designated by the symbols 63a and 68p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 404 to it.
The manuscript is currently housed at the Austrian National Library in Vienna.
