Minuscule 604 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 459 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century.K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 82. Formerly it was labeled by 125a and 150p.
Description
The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles on 394 parchment leaves (size ). The text is written in one column per page, 16 lines per page.
It contains Prolegomena at the beginning, lectionary markings at the margin, , subscriptions at the end of each book, with numbers of .
The order of books: Acts, Catholic, and Pauline epistles. Epistle to the Hebrews is placed after Epistle to Philemon.
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.
History
The manuscript was brought from Constantinople to Paris.
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Johann Martin Augustin Scholz. It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au N. T., conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 117 Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.
The manuscript currently is housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 125), at Paris.
See also
List of New Testament minuscules Biblical manuscript Textual criticism
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