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Date
  
11th century

Now at
  
British Library

Type
  
?

Script
  
Greek

Size
  
29.8 cm by 23.4 cm

Text
  
Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles †

Minuscule 641 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Ο16 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically to the 11th century. The manuscript is lacunose. Gregory labeled it by 204a and 260p.

Contents

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles on 248 parchment leaves (size 29.8 cm by 23.4 cm) with some lacunae (Acts 4:15-32; Ephesians 6:21-24; Hebrews 13:24-25). The text is written in one column per page, 20 lines per page for biblical text, and 56 lines per page for a commentary.

It contains Prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια before each sacred book, subscriptions at the end of each book, and numbers of stichoi in subscriptions. It has a commentary of Oecumenius.

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

Text

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

History

The manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 11th century.

The manuscript once belonged to Giovanni Cardinal de Salviatis († 1553), then to Pope Pius VI. It was bought in 1859 for the British Museum. The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory (as 204a and 260p). Gregory saw the manuscript in 1883. In 1908 Gregory gave the number 641 to it.

The manuscript currently is housed at the British Library (Additional Manuscripts 22734), at London.

References

Minuscule 641 Wikipedia