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Minuscule 619

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Date
  
984

Type
  
mixed

Script
  
Size
  
33.5 cm by 24 cm

Minuscule 619 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 57 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the 984. The manuscript has complex contents. Tischendorf labelled it by 148a and 184p.

Contents

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Pauline epistles on 342 parchment leaves (size 33.5 cm by 24 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 15 lines per page for the biblical text, 46 lines per page for a commentary.

It contains Prolegomena, numbers of the κεφαλαια (chapters) at the margin, the τιτλοι (titles) at the top, and a commentary.

The order of books: Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles. Hebrews is placed after Epistle to Philemon.

Text

The Greek text of the codex Aland did not place in any Category.

History

The manuscript was written in A.D. 984, Indict 12, by Theophylact, priest and doctor of law. It once belonged to the Benedictine Library of St. Mary. It was examined by Bernard de Montfaucon.

Formerly it was labelled by 148a and 184p. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 619 to it.

The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Johann Martin Augustin Scholz. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.

The manuscript currently is housed at the Laurentian Library (Conv. Supr. 191), at Florence.

References

Minuscule 619 Wikipedia