Minuscule 637 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 262 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically to the 12th century. 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 175a and 216p.
Description
The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles, on 242 parchment leaves (size ). It is written in two columns per page, 25 lines per page. It contains Prolegomena, tables of the , list of , , lectionary markings, Menologion, subscriptions, and numbers of at the margin.
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 has been dated by INTF to the 12th century.Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute It was written in Calabria.
The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Johann Martin Augustin Scholz.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) It was examined by Andrew Birch.Andreas Birch, Variae Lectiones ad Textum Evv..., Kopenhagen 1801, p. XCIV f. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.
Formerly it was labeled by 175a and 216p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 637 to it.
The manuscript currently is housed at the library of University of Messina (104), at Messina.
See also
List of New Testament minuscules Biblical manuscript Textual criticism Minuscule 636 Minuscule 638
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