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New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionariesMinuscule 638 Text Acts, Catholic epistles, Paul Date 11th century Script Greek Now at Christ Church, Oxford Size 17.5 cm by 13.5 cm Type Byzantine text-type Category V Hand small and neat Minuscule 638 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 188 (von Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically to the 11th century. The manuscript is lacunose.[2] Scrivener labelled it by 191a and 245p.[3]
Contents
Description
The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles, on 306 parchment leaves (size 17.5 cm by 13.5 cm), with lacuna (Acts 1:1-11). It is written in one columns per page, 23 lines per page.[2] It contains Prolegomena, Euthalian Apparatus, tables of the κεφαλαια, numbers of the κεφαλαια, τιτλοι at the top, Synaxarion, Menologion, subscriptions at the end of books, numbered στιχοι, and scholia.[3][4] It contains a catena added by a later hand and dated to the 1312.[3]
The order of books: Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, 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. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.[5]
History
The manuscript is dated by INTF to the 11th century.[6] Formerly it was housed in Mar Saba. In 1731 it was brought from Constantinople to England.[4]
The manuscript was examined by Walker. It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.[4]
Formerly it was labelled it by 191a and 245p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 638 to it.[1]
The manuscript currently is housed at the library of Christ Church College (Wake 38), at Oxford.[2][6]
See also
References
- ^ a b Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 70. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n81/mode/2up.
- ^ 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. 84.
- ^ 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. 298.
- ^ a b c d Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig. p. 280. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n293/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. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ a b Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
Categories:- Greek New Testament minuscules
- 11th-century biblical manuscripts
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