Uspenski Gospels Gebhardt in 1881). The manuscript is cited in Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece, because of its date. The codex is held in Saint Petersburg (National Library of Russia, Gr. 219. 213. 101). Uspenski Gospels Uspenski Gospels, "Minuscule 461" (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 92 (Soden), are a New Testament minuscule manuscript written in Greek, dated at 835 AD. They are the oldest known dated manuscript of the New Testament; it was not customary for Greek scribes to date their work at the time. The codex contains complete text of the four Gospels, on 344 parchment leaves, the leaves measure 16.7 cm
New Testament of the New Testament. These were all extremely important figures in the early church, writers would have mentioned their deaths if the New Testament had been written later. Furthermore, the Gospels contain numerous attacks on the Sadducees, a sect of Judaism that was wiped out with the destruction of the temple. Why, they ask, would later writers devote so much narrative space to attacking a group that no longer existed? John Robinson also notes that each book of the New Testament had to be written prior to the destruction of The Temple. Robinson notes that most scholars interpret the Olivet