Minuscule 607

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Minuscule 607
Text	Acts of the Apostles, Pauline epistles
Date	11th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Bibliothèque nationale de France
Size	32 cm by 24.8 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V

Minuscule 607 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), O ¹⁹ (von Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.^[2] The manuscript has complex contents. Formerly it was labeled by 128^a and 155^p.^[3]

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles on 317 parchment leaves (size 32 cm by 24.8 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 37 lines per page.^[2] The text of the Catholic epistles is surrounded by a catena.^[3][4]

The order of books: Acts, Catholic, and Pauline epistles. Epistle to the Hebrews is placed after Epistle to Philemon.^[4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[5]

History

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Johann Martin Augustin Scholz. It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.^[6] Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.^[4]

Formerly it was labeled by 128^a and 155^p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 607 to it.^[1]

The manuscript currently is housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 218), at Paris.^[2]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 69. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n79/mode/2up. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 82.
3. ^ ^{a b} Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 294. 
4. ^ ^{a b c} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 275. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n287/mode/2up. 
5. ^ Aland, Kurt; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
6. ^ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au N. T., conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 122

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig. p. 275. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n287/mode/2up. 

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