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New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionariesMinuscule 647 Text Gospels Date 13th century Script Greek Now at National Library of Greece Size 25 cm by 19 cm Type ? Category none Minuscule 647 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1611 (von Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. The manuscript is lacunose.[2] Scrivener labelled by 722e.[3]
Contents
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 304 parchment leaves (size 25 cm by 19 cm), with only one lacuna at the end of Gospel of John (John 21:20-25). The text is written in two columns per page, 25 lines per page,[2] by several hands.
It contains Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian tables, Prolegomena, the tables of the κεφαλαια (chapters) are placed before each Gospel, the text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 240 - 16:19), with a references to the Eusebian Canons, Synaxarion, Menologion, and subscriptions.[3][4]
Text
The Greek text of the codex Kurt Aland 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.
The text of John 5:3.4 is marked with an obelus.[4]
History
Scrivener and Gregory dated the manuscript to the 13th century. In the present day the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 13th century.[7]
Formerly the manuscript was held in Constantinople (Hagia Taphu 275). The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.[4]
The manuscript currently is housed at the National Library of Greece (?), at Athens.[2][7]
See also
References
- ^ 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. 85.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 209. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n221/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. 133, 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
Further reading
- Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig. p. 209. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n221/mode/2up.
External links
Categories:- Greek New Testament minuscules
- 13th-century biblical manuscripts
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