Minuscule 650

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Minuscule 650
Text	Gospels †
Date	12th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Turkish Historical Society
Size	17.5 cm by 13 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V

Minuscule 650 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 399 (von Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12 century. The manuscript is lacunose.^[2] Scrivener labelled it by 726^e.^[3]

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 219 parchment leaves (size 17.5 cm by 13 cm), with some lacunae (Matthew 1:1-10:1; Luke 23:56; John 1:1-18). The text is written in one column per page, 18-24 lines per page.^[2]

It contains the tables of the κεφαλαια, the Ammonian Sections, (not the Eusebian Canons, lectionary markings, incipits, Synaxarion, Menologion, subscriptions, and στιχοι.^[3][4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.^[5] Wisse did not examine its text by using his Profile Method.^[6]

History

Scrivener and Gregory dated the manuscript to the 13th century. Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 12th century.^[7]

Formerly the manuscript was held in Constantinople (Hellenikou Philologikou Sullogou 5). 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 Turkish Historical Society (5), at Ankara.^[2][7]

See also

Bible portal

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism
• Minuscule 649

References

1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 71. 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. p. 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. 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: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 209. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n221/mode/2up. 

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