Minuscule 675

Minuscule 675

New Testament manuscript
Text	Gospel of Matthew †
Date	13th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Cambridge University Library
Size	20.5 cm by 13.7 cm
Type	?
Category	none

Minuscule 675 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 446 (von Soden),[1][2] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. The manuscript has survived in a fragmentary condition.[3][4] Scrivener labelled it by 621^e.[5]

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospel of Matthew 26:20-39, on 2 parchment leaves (size 20.5 cm by 13.7 cm),[3] The text is written in one column per page, 26 lines per page.[3][6]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numerals are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles) at the top. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections, but no a references to the Eusebian Canons.[5]

It contains a lectionary markings at the margin and Prolegomena to the Gospel of Mark.[5]

Text

Kurt Aland did not place the Greek text of the codex in any Category.[7]

History

Scrivener and Gregory dated it to the 13th or 14th century.[6] Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 13th century.[4]

The manuscript belonged to Tischendorf (along with Minuscule 674). It was bought after his death, in 1876.[6] It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scrivener and Gregory. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.[6] It was examined by Hort and Brandshaw.[5]

Actually the manuscript is housed at the Cambridge University Library (Add. Mss. 1879.24) in Cambridge.[3][4]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

1. Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 195.
2. Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 72.
3. Aland, K.; M. Welte; B. Köster; K. Junack (1994). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. p. 87. ISBN 3-11-011986-2.
4. Handschriftenliste at the Münster Institute
5. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1 (fourth ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 263.
6. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 211.
7. Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. pp. 133, 139. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 211.