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Date
  
11th century

Size
  
32 cm by 24.8 cm

Script
  
Greek

Type
  
Byzantine text-type

Text
  
Acts of the Apostles, Pauline epistles

Now at
  
Bibliothèque nationale de France

Minuscule 607 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), O 19 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. The manuscript has complex contents. Formerly it was labeled by 128a and 155p.

Contents

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles on 317 parchment leaves (size 32 cm by 24.8 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 37 lines per page. The text of the Catholic epistles is surrounded by a catena.

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 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.

Formerly it was labeled by 128a and 155p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 607 to it.

The manuscript currently is housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 218), at Paris.

References

Minuscule 607 Wikipedia