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Date
  
14th century

Size
  
16.9 cm by 12.5 cm

Script
  
Greek

Type
  
Byzantine text-type

Text
  
Acts of the Apostles, Pauline epistles

Now at
  
Bibliothèque nationale de France

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. The manuscript has complex contents. Formerly it was labeled by 125a and 150p.

Contents

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles on 394 parchment leaves (size 16.9 cm by 12.5 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 16 lines per page.

It contains Prolegomena at the beginning, lectionary markings at the margin, αναγνωσεις, subscriptions at the end of each book, with numbers of στιχοι.

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. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.

The manuscript currently is housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 125), at Paris.

References

Minuscule 604 Wikipedia