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New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionariesMinuscule 612 Text Acts of the Apostles, Pauline epistles † Date 12th century Script Greek Now at Turin National University Library Size 21 cm by 15.5 cm Type ? Category none Hand clear large hand Minuscule 612 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 297 (von Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.[2] The manuscript is lacunose. Formerly it was labeled by 134a and 167p.[3]
Contents
Description
The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 370 parchment leaves (size 21 cm by 15.5 cm), with lacunae (Acts 1:1-2:47). The lacking text was supplemented by a later hand. The text is written in one column per page, 19 lines per page.[2] It contains Prolegomena.[4][3]
The order of books: Acts, Pauline epistles, and Catholic epistles. Hebrews is placed after Epistle to Philemon.[4]
Text
The Greek text of the codex Aland did not place in any Category.[5]
History
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Johann Martin Augustin Scholz. It was examined by Pasinus. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.[4]
The manuscript was destroyed by fire.[2]
The manuscript currently is housed at the Turin National University Library (B. V. 19; 33 folios in B. VI. 43), at Turin.[2]
See also
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 83.
- ^ a b Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 294.
- ^ a b c Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 276. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n289/mode/2up.
- ^ 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. pp. 133, 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
Further reading
- W. Reader, Entdeckung von Fregmentem aus zwei zerstörten Minuskeln (338 und 612), Biblica 61, (1980) 407-411.
External links
Categories:- Greek New Testament minuscules
- 12th-century biblical manuscripts
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