Minuscule 665

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| number = 665

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| text = Acts of the Apostles, Pauline epistles †

| script = Greek

| date = 13th century

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| now at = Bodleian Library

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| size = {{×|23|17.5}}

| type = ?

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Minuscule 665 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 354 (von Soden),{{cite book|last=Gregory|first=Caspar René|author-link=Caspar René Gregory|title=Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament|url=https://archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n81/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=71}} is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century. The manuscript is lacunose.{{Cite book

| last = Aland

| first = K.

| author-link = Kurt Aland

|author2=M. Welte |author3=B. Köster |author4=K. Junack

| title = Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments

| publisher = Walter de Gruyter

| year = 1994

| location = Berlin, New York

| page = 86

| isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}[http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php Handschriftenliste] at the Münster Institute Gregory labelled it by 222^a and 277^p. Scrivener labelled it by 213^a and 251^p.{{Cite book

| last = Scrivener

| first = Frederick Henry Ambrose

| author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

|author2=Edward Miller

| title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament

| publisher = George Bell & Sons

| year = 1894

| location = London

| edition = 4

| volume = 1

| page = 299

}}

Description

The codex contains the entire of the Acts of the Apostles and Pauline epistles, on 149 parchment leaves (size {{×|23|17.5}}) with some lacunae (2 Peter 2:15-3:18; 3 John; Romans 10:17-1 Corinthians 1:7).{{r|Scrivener|Gregory}} The text of Romans 10:17-1 Corinthians 1:7 was supplied by a later hand.

The text is written in one column per page, 29-30 lines per page. The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, with the {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (titles) at the top of the pages.

It contains Prolegomena, it has lectionary markings at the margin, liturgical books with hagiographies (Synaxarion and Menologion), subscriptions at the end of each book, numbers of stichoi, and Euthalian Apparatus to the Pauline epistles.{{Cite book

| last = Gregory

| first = Caspar René

| author-link = Caspar René Gregory

| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments

| publisher = J.C. Hinrichs

| year = 1900

| location = Leipzig

| volume = 1

| page = 282

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n295/mode/2up

}}

It contains additional material Journeys and death of Paul (as 102, 206, 216, 256, 468, 614, 912).

The order of books: Book of Acts, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles (Hebrews follows Philemon).{{r|Gregory}}

Text

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

| last = Aland

| first = Kurt

| author-link = Kurt Aland

| last2 = Aland

| first2 = Barbara

| author-link2 = Barbara Aland

| others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.)

| title = The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism

| publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

| year = 1995

| location = Grand Rapids

| pages = 133, 139

| isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}

History

Scrivener and Gregory dated the manuscript to the 13th century.{{r|Scrivener|Gregory}} Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 13th century.

Currently the manuscript is housed at the Bodleian Library (Auct. F. 6.24), in Oxford.{{r|Aland|INTF}}

Minuscule 665

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