Minuscule 611

New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionaries
Minuscule 611
Text Acts of the Apostles, Pauline epistles †
Date 12th century
Script Greek
Now at Turin National University Library
Size 20.4 cm by 14.6 cm
Type Byzantine text-type
Category none
Hand clear large hand

Minuscule 611 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 250 (von Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.[2] The manuscript is lacunose. Formerly it was labeled by 133a and 166p.[3]

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 295 parchment leaves (size 20.4 cm by 14.6 cm), with lacunae (Acts 1:1-8; Romans 1:1-11). The lacking text was supplied by a later hand. It is written in one column per page, 24 lines per page,[2] in a clear large hand.

It contains Prolegomena and pictures. The text of the Catholic epistles is surrounded by a catena.[3][4]

The order of books: Acts, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles. Hebrews is precede 1 Timothy.[4]

Text

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

According to Hort it has good text in the Catholic epistles with remarkable readings.[3]

History

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

Formerly it was labeled by 133a and 166p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 611 to it.[1]

The manuscript was destroyed by fire.[2]

The manuscript currently is housed at the Turin National University Library (C. VI. 19), at Turin.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 69.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 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. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 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. 294.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments 1. Leipzig. p. 276.
  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. pp. 133, 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.

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