Minuscule 646

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Minuscule 646
Text	Gospels
Date	16th century
Script	Greek
Now at	National Library of Greece
Size	20 cm by 15 cm
Type	?
Category	none

Minuscule 646 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 2059 (von Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 16th century. The manuscript is lacunose.^[2] Scrivener labeled by 721^e.^[3]

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 214 parchment leaves (size 20 cm by 15 cm), with only one lacuna at the end of Gospel of John (John 21:20-25). The text is written in one column per page, 22-29 lines per page,^[2] by several hands.

It contains the Eusebian tables, the tables of the κεφαλαια (chapters) are placed before every Gospel, the text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections, with a references to the Eusebian Canons.^[3][4]

Text

Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex did not place in any Category.^[5] It was not examined by using Claremont Profile Method.^[6] In result its textual character is still not determined.

History

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 13th century. Gregory dated it to the 14th century. Actually the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 16th century.^[7]

Formerly the manuscript was held in Mar Saba, then in in Constantinople (Hagia Taphu 436). The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener (721) and Gregory (646). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.^[4]

The manuscript currently is housed at the National Library of Greece (Taphu 218), at Athens.^[2][7]

See also

Bible portal

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

References

1. ^ 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} 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. 268. 
4. ^ ^{a b} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. pp. 208–209. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n221/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. 133, 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
6. ^ Wisse, Frederik (1982). The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 64. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 
7. ^ ^{a b} Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig. p. 208–209. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n221/mode/2up. 

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