Minuscule 631

New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionaries
Minuscule 631
Name Ottobonianus gr. 417
Text General epistles
Date 15th century
Script Greek
Now at Vatican Library
Size 21.4 cm by 17.7 cm
Type ?
Category none

Minuscule 631 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1604 (von Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. It is known as Codex Ottobonianus. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 15th century.[2] Formerly it was labeled by 165a.[3]

Description

The codex contains the text of the General epistles on 24 paper leaves (size 21.4 cm by 17.7 cm). It is written in one column per page, 21 lines per page.[2][3][4] The order of books is unusual: James, 1-2 Peter, 1 John, Jude, 2-3 John.[4]

It has also contains the works of Ephrem the Syrian and other Church Fathers. The whole manuscript has 339 leaves.[3]

The whole codex contents
folios 17-48 — Pauline epistles[4]
folios 49-72 — General epistles[2]
folios 73-339 — works of Ephrem and other Church Fathers[4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex was not placed by Kurt Aland in any Category.[5]

History

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 14th century,[3] Gregory dated it to the 16th century.[4] Actually it is dated by the INTF to the 15th century.[2][6]

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Johann Martin Augustin Scholz, who slightly examined the manuscript.[7] It was examined and described by Giuseppe Cozza-Luzi.[8] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.[4]

Formerly it was labeled by 165a. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 631 to it.[1]

The manuscript currently is housed at the Vatican Library (Ottob. gr. 417, fol. 49-72), at Rome.[2][6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 70.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 84.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 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. 296.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments 1. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs. p. 278.
  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. 133. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
  7. ↑ J. M. A. Scholz, Biblisch-kritische Reise in Frankreich, der Schweiz, Italien, Palästine und im Archipel in den Jahren 1818, 1819, 1820, 1821: Nebst einer Geschichte des Textes des Neuen Testaments (Leipzig, 1823)
  8. ↑ Cozza-Luzi, Giuseppe (1893). Codices manuscripti graeci ottoboniani Bibliothecae Vaticanae descripti praeside Alphonso cardinali Capecelatro archiepiscopo Capuano. London: Ex Typographeo Vaticano. pp. 228–229.

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