Minuscule 653 Explained

Minuscule 653 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 182 (von Soden),^[1] 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.^{[2] [3]} Scrivener labelled it by 640^e.^[4]

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.^[2]

The text is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: 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 Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια before each Gospel, lectionary markings, music notes (in red), subscriptions, and numbered Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: στιχοι.^{[4] [5]}

Text

Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex it in any Category.^[6]

History

The manuscript was written by Markus, a scribe.^[5] It was brought from Sinai to Berlin by Heinrich Brugsch along with the codex 654 and Minuscule 658.^[5] Gregory saw the manuscript in 1887.^[5] It was housed in Berlin (Konig. Bibl. Gr. Oktavo 3).^[5] One leaf of the codex was brought to Petersburg in 1912.^[7] Kurt Treu examined one leaf of the codex (housed in Petersburg).^[8]

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.^[9]

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.^{[2] [3]}

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism
• Minuscule 654

Further reading

• 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.
• V. Benešić, Monumenta Sinaitica, II (St Petersburg, 1912), p. 71.
• Kirsopp Lake & Silva Lake, Dated Greek Minuscule Manuscripts to the Year 1200, Boston V, 201.

Notes and References

1. Book: Gregory, Caspar René. Caspar René Gregory. Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. 1908. J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. Leipzig. 71.
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
4. Book: Scrivener , Frederick Henry Ambrose . Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener . Edward Miller . . . 1894 . London . 4 . 1 . 264 .
5. Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . Hinrichs . 1900 . Leipzig . 1 . 209 .
6. Book: Aland , Kurt . Kurt Aland . Aland . Barbara . Barbara Aland . Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) . The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism . limited . . 1995 . Grand Rapids . 133, 139 . 978-0-8028-4098-1.
7. V. Benešić, Monumenta Sinaitica, II (St Petersburg, 1912), p. 71.
8. 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.
9. 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