Minuscule 619

Minuscule 619
New Testament manuscript
TextActs of the Apostles, Pauline epistles
Date984
ScriptGreek
Now atLaurentian Library
Size33.5 cm by 24 cm
Typemixed
Categorynone

Minuscule 619 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 57 (von Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the 984.[2] The manuscript has complex contents. Tischendorf labelled it by 148a and 184p.[3]

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Pauline epistles on 342 parchment leaves (size 33.5 cm by 24 cm).[2] The text is written in one column per page, 15 lines per page for the biblical text, 46 lines per page for a commentary.[4]

It contains Prolegomena, numbers of the κεφαλαια (chapters) at the margin, the τιτλοι (titles) at the top, and a commentary.[3][4]

The order of books: Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles. Hebrews is placed after Epistle to Philemon.[4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex Aland did not place in any Category.[5]

History

The manuscript was written in A.D. 984, Indict 12, by Theophylact, priest and doctor of law. It once belonged to the Benedictine Library of St. Mary.[3] It was examined by Bernard de Montfaucon.[4]

Formerly it was labelled by 148a and 184p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 619 to it.[1]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Johann Martin Augustin Scholz. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.[4]

The manuscript currently is housed at the Laurentian Library (Conv. Supr. 191), at Florence.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 69.
  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. 83.
  3. ^ a b c 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. 295.
  4. ^ a b c d e Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 276.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ^ Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.

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