Minuscule 608

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Minuscule 608
Text	Acts, Pauline epistles
Date	14th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Bibliothèque nationale de France
Size	29.4 cm by 20.7 cm
Type	mixed
Category	none

Minuscule 608 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), OΘ ⁴⁴ (von Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century.^[2] The manuscript has complex contents. Formerly it was labeled by 129^a and 156^p.^[3]

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles on 388 parchment leaves (size 29.4 cm by 20.7 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 41 and more lines per page.^[2] Scrivener noted: "The text is sometimes suppressed".^[3] The text of the Catholic epistles is surrounded by a catena.^[3][4]

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

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a mixture of text-types. Aland did not place it in any Category.^[5]

History

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

Formerly it was labeled by 129^a and 156^p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 608 to it.^[1]

The manuscript currently is housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 220), 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 c} 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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