Minuscule 634 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 462 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1394. The manuscript is lacunose.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. Formerly it was labeled by 169a and 206p.
Description
The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles, on 248 parchment leaves (size ), with lacunae (Acts 1:1-7:23). Written in one column per page, 21 lines per page. It contains Prolegomena, the , lectionary markings, incipits, , Synaxarion, Menologion, subscriptions at the end of each book, and numbers of in subscriptions.
The order of books: Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, 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. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.
History
The manuscript is dated by a colophon to the year 1394.Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute It was written by Joasaph, in Constantinople, in the monastery . Synaxarion and Menologion were written by Joannes.
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Johann Martin Augustin Scholz, who slightly examined the manuscript.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)
Formerly it was labeled by 169a and 206p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 634 to it.
The manuscript currently is housed at the Vatican Library (Chis. R V 29 (gr. 23)), at Rome.
See also
List of New Testament minuscules Biblical manuscript Textual criticism
References
Further reading
R. Barbour, Greek Literary Hands A.D. 400-1600, Oxford Palaeographical Handbook (Oxford, 1981), p. 59.