Minuscule 612
| New Testament manuscript | |
| Text | Acts of the Apostles, Pauline epistles † |
|---|---|
| Date | 12th century |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | Turin National University Library |
| Size | 21 cm by 15.5 cm |
| Type | ? |
| Category | none |
| Hand | clear large hand |
Minuscule 612 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 297 (von Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.[2] The manuscript is lacunose. Formerly it was labeled by 134a and 167p.[3]
Description
[edit]The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 370 parchment leaves (size 21 cm by 15.5 cm), with lacunae (Acts 1:1-2:47). The lacking text was supplied by a later hand. The text is written in one column per page, 19 lines per page.[2] It contains Prolegomena.[4][3]
The order of books: Acts, Pauline epistles, and Catholic epistles. Hebrews is placed after Epistle to Philemon.[4]
Text
[edit]The Greek text of the codex Aland did not place in any Category.[5]
History
[edit]The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Johann Martin Augustin Scholz. It was examined by Pasinus. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.[4]
The manuscript was destroyed by fire.[2]
The manuscript currently is housed at the Turin National University Library (B. V. 19; 33 folios in B. VI. 43), at Turin.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 69.
- ^ a b c d K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 83.
- ^ a b Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 294.
- ^ a b c Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 276.
- ^ 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
[edit]- W. Reader, Entdeckung von Fregmentem aus zwei zerstörten Minuskeln (338 und 612), Biblica 61, (1980) 407-411.