Minuscule 653

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Minuscule 653 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 182 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1077. The manuscript has not complex contents. Scrivener labelled it by 640e.{{Cite book | last = Scrivener | first = Frederick Henry Ambrose | author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |author2=Edward Miller | title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1894 | location = London | edition = 4 | volume = 1 | page = 264

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Matthew and Gospel of John, on 267 parchment leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, 16 lines per page.

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, whose numbers are given at the margin, with a references to the Eusebian Canons.

It contains the tables of the κεφαλαια before each Gospel, lectionary markings, music notes (in red), subscriptions, and numbered στιχοι.{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 209 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n221/mode/2up

Text

Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex it in any Category.{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland | last2 = Aland | first2 = Barbara | author-link2 = Barbara Aland | others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) | title = The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism | url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1995 | location = Grand Rapids | pages = 133, 139 | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}

History

The manuscript was written by Markus, a scribe. Kurt Treu examined one leaf of the codex (housed in Petersburg).

At the end of 1943 year has increased the frequency of the bombing of Berlin. The Prussian State Library sent many collections out of Berlin to be sheltered in Silesia for safekeeping. As the result of postwar border changes some of these collections were found in Poland (among them 266 folios of minuscule 653). They were moved to the Jagiellonian University Library.

Actually 266 folios of the manuscript are housed at the Biblioteka Jagiellońska (Fonds der Berliner Hss., Graec. Octavo 3), in Kraków. One folio of the codex is housed at the National Library of Russia (Gr. 292) in Saint Petersburg.

References

References

  1. Gregory, Caspar René. (1908). "Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament". J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung.
  2. 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. [http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php Handschriftenliste] at the Münster Institute
  4. It was brought from Sinai to Berlin by [[Heinrich Karl Brugsch. Heinrich Brugsch]] along with the codex [[Minuscule 654
  5. Kurt Treu, ''Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbiblisi und Erevan'', ''[[Texte und Untersuchungen]]'' 91 (Berlin, 1966), pp. 124-126.
  6. Sroka Marek, ''The Music Collection of the Former Prussian State Library at the Jagiellonian Library in Kraków, Poland: Past, Present, and Future Developments'', Library Trends - Volume 55, Number 3, Winter 2007, pp. 651-664

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