Minuscule 645 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 434 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 1304 (or 1305). The manuscript has complex contents.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. Scrivener labelled it as 591e.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 279 parchment leaves (size ). It is written in one column per page, 22 lines per page.

It contains tables of the , numbers of the (chapters) at the margin, the (titles) at the top, lectionary markings, incipits, , subscriptions at the end of each of the Gospels, numbers of (in subscriptions), and pictures. The Ammonian Sections were added by a later hand.

The Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is marked with an obelus.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kr. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V. According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents Kr in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made.

History

The manuscript was written by Neophytus a monk of Cyprus in 1304/1305.Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute It was held in the monastery in Creta. In 1849 it belonged to Micheal Sarmalenios in Milos. It was bought at Milos by H. O. Coxe in 1857 from a Greek who had it from a relative who had been "hegoumenos" of a Canadian monastery.

A facsimile was given in Catalogue of British Museum.

The manuscript currently is housed at the British Library (Add MS 22506) in London.

See also

List of New Testament minuscules Biblical manuscript Textual criticism

References

Further reading A. Turyn, Dated Greek Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in the Libraries of Great Britain, Dumbarton Oaks Series XVII (Washington, D.C. 1980), 46, p. 67 Facsimiles of Manuscripts and Inscriptions, ed. E. A. Bond, E. M. Thompson and others, I (London 1873-1883), 205