Minuscule 639

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Minuscule 639
Text	Acts, Catholic epistles, Paul †
Date	11th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Christ Church, Oxford
Size	20.5 by 15.5 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V

Minuscule 639 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering, α 169 Soden).^[1] It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on a parchment. It is dated palaeographically to the 11th century. The manuscript is lacunose.^[2] Formerly it was labeled by 192^a and 246^p.^[3]

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 237 parchment leaves (20.5 by 15.5 cm) with some lacunae (Acts 21:6-23; 1 Peter 5:10-14). Some leaves were supplemented on paper by a later hand. The text is written in one column per page, 22-24 lines per page in minuscule letters. The last folio, no. 237, is a palimpsest, the lower text was written in uncial letters, and belongs to the codex 0132.^[2][3]

It contains Prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια to the Catholic epistles, numbers of the κεφαλαια (chapters), lectionary markings, subscriptions, and στιχοι. Some lacking leaves were supplemented in 14th century on a paper, by one Micheal (Acts 1:1-3:20; 7:27-10:26; 10:38-11:19; 12:2-15:25).^[3][4]

The order of books: Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles. Epistle to the Hebrews is placed after Epistle to Philemon.^[3]

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 described by Kitchin.^[6] It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener. Formerly it was labeled by 192^a and 246^p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 639 to it.^[1]

The codex now is located in Christ Church College (Wake 37) at Oxford.^[2]

See also

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• List of New Testament minuscules
• Textual criticism
• Biblical manuscript
• Minuscule 638

References

1. ^ ^{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. 
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. 85.
3. ^ ^{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. 
4. ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894 (2005 reprint)). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 298. 
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. ^ Kitchin, Catalogus codicum mss. qui in bibliotheca Aedis Christi apud Oxonienses adserrantur, Oxford 1867, S. 21a.