Minuscule 664

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Minuscule 664
Name	Codex Zittaviensis
Text	New Testament
Date	15th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Zittau
Size	31 cm by 20.2 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V

Minuscule 664 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 502 (von Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the Old Testament and New Testament, on paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 15th century. The manuscript has complex contents.^[2][3] Gregory labelled it by 664^e, 253^a, 303^p, and 106^r.^[4] Scrivener labelled it by 605^e, 233^a, 243^p, and 106^r.^[5]

Description

The codex contains the entire of the New Testament, on 233 paper leaves (size 31 cm by 20.2 cm).^[5][4]

The text is written in one column per page, 30 lines per page.^[2][4] It contains Prolegomena, lists of the κεφαλαια are placed before every book, the text is divided according to the κεφαλαια, with τιτλοι, subscriptions at the end of books, and stichoi.^[4][5]

It contains also the text of the Old Testament (the whole codex has 775 leaves) with the books of 1 Esdras, 4 Maccabees, Judith, Tobit. The order of books: Old Testament (Genesis–Esther), Gospels, Book of Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles, and Apocalypse.^[4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden lists it to the textual family K^r. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.^[6]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family K^r in Luke 1; 10; 20.^[7]

History

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 14th century,^[5] Gregory dated it to the 15th century.^[4] Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 15th century.^[3]

The manuscript once belonged to David Fleischmann († 1606), then to John Fleischmann, who in 1620 presented the manuscript to the Stadtbiliothek in Zittau.^[4]

It was examined and collated by Christian Frederick Matthaei in 1801-1802, but this collation had lost.^[4][5] Ernst von Dobschütz examined the manuscript. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1889.^[4]

The text of the Apocalypse was collated by Herman C. Hoskier.^[8]

Currently the manuscript is housed at the Stadtbibliothek (A 1), in Zittau.^[2][3]

See also

Bible portal

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism
• Minuscule 653

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} Aland, K.; M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 86. ISBN 3110119862. 
3. ^ ^{a b c} Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
4. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 210. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n223/mode/2up. 
5. ^ ^{a b c d e} 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. 261. 
6. ^ 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. 
7. ^ 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. 
8. ^ Herman C. Hoskier, Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse: Collation of All Existing Available Greek Documents with the Standard Text of Stephen’s Third Edition Together with the Testimony of Versions, Commentaries and Fathers. vol. 1 (London: Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., 1929), pp. 330-337

Further reading

• Herman C. Hoskier, Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse: Collation of All Existing Available Greek Documents with the Standard Text of Stephen’s Third Edition Together with the Testimony of Versions, Commentaries and Fathers. vol. 1 (London: Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., 1929), pp. 330-337

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