The Codex Zittaviensis (No. 664 in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 502 (von Soden),[1] dedicated as Rahlfs 44, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the Old Testament and New Testament, on paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 15th century. The manuscript has complex contents.[2] [3] Gregory labelled it by 664e, 253a, 303p, and 106r. Scrivener labelled it by 605e, 233a, 243p, and 106r.[4]
The codex contains the entire of the New Testament, on 233 paper leaves (size).[4]
The text is written in one column per page, 30 lines per page.[2] It contains Prolegomena, lists of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια are placed before every book, the text is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια, with Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: τιτλοι, subscriptions at the end of books, and stichoi.[5] [4]
It contains also the text of the Old Testament (the whole codex has 775 leaves) with the books of 1 Esdras, 4 Maccabees, Judith, Tobit. The order of books: Old Testament (Genesis–Esther), Gospels, Book of Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles, and Apocalypse.[5]
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden lists it to the textual family Kr. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.[6]
According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family Kr in Luke 1; 10; 20.[7]
Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 14th century,[4] Gregory dated it to the 15th century.[5] Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 15th century.[3]
The manuscript once belonged to David Fleischmann († 1606), then to John Fleischmann, who in 1620 presented the manuscript to the Stadtbiliothek in Zittau.[5]
It was examined and collated by Christian Frederick Matthaei in 1801-1802, but this collation had lost.[5] [4] Ernst von Dobschütz examined the manuscript. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1889.[5]
The text of the Apocalypse was collated by Herman C. Hoskier.[8]
Currently the manuscript is housed at the Stadtbibliothek (A 1), in Zittau.[2] [3]